lukeprog comments on Superintelligence Reading Group - Section 1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jallen 16 September 2014 02:46:41AM 3 points [-]

I'm curious if any of you feel that future widespread use of commercial scale quantum computing (here I am thinking of at least thousands of quantum computers in the private domain with a multitude of programs already written, tested, available, economic and functionally useful) will have any impact on the development of strong A.I.? Has anyone read or written any literature with regards to potential windfalls this could bring to A.I.'s advancement (or lack thereof)?

I'm also curious if other paradigm shifting computing technologies could rapidly accelerate the path toward superintelligence?

Comment author: lukeprog 16 September 2014 03:48:48AM 2 points [-]

I've seen several papers like "Quantum speedup for unsupervised learning" but I don't know enough about quantum algorithms to have an opinion on the question, really.

Comment author: lukeprog 16 September 2014 05:14:25PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: NxGenSentience 20 September 2014 11:51:13AM 1 point [-]

Luke,

Thanks for posting the ink. Its an april 2014 paper, as you know. I just downloaded the PDF and it looks pretty interesting. I'l post my impression, if I have anything worthwhile to say, either here in Katja's group, or up top on lw generally, when I have time to read more of it.