If they can find some synergies between the two, that could be THE major development. Make better AI by using Quantum Computers, and make better Quantum Computers by applying AI.
AI – being practically applied in many areas where it doesn't seem to be working well
I really do hope these aren't our best lanes of progress
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/google-intr...
Accurate weather forecasts save money. Doing them on super-computers costs a lot of money. But with Google's AI solution that gets cheaper.
As for QC I'm not saying it does much useful things yet, but companies are starting to use it and there is progress going on.
What in your view are better lanes of progress than QC and AI?
It's very true that there are many areas of ML where considerable progress has been made and is delivering value
Are companies using QC? It's not like it can do much currently, as I understand it
We're making a lot of progress all over the engineering side of computing. A lot of it is incremental, but a faster or more energy efficient processor is very practically useful in a way that QC isn't yet. We might well get optical interconnects on cpu dies before we get anything tangible from QC