At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2009), we show the progress we have made. We demonstrate a detector that has learned to spot cars by looking at example pictures. It was trained with adiabatic quantum optimization using a D-Wave C4 Chimera chip. There are still many open questions but in our experiments we observed that this detector performs better than those we had trained using classical solvers running on the computers we have in our data centers today. Besides progress in engineering synthetic intelligence we hope that improved mastery of quantum computing will also increase our appreciation for the structure of reality as described by the laws of quantum physics.

Can I just say it’s about to start gettin crazy up in this hizzy we call the Earth? How much longer will it be until a Google datacenter or the Google network is a sentient being? Google is moving aggressively onto each continent, setting up it’s own fiber networks, worming its way towards our pockets… Google is setting themselves up to be humanity’s uberbrain. The scope, scale and cleverness of their plans continues to amaze me. They may be evil but at least they’re my kind of evil.

Google: My Kind of Evil.

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 20:22.