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AI confirms a long-suspected limit on quantum computers’ advantages
A decades-old, vastly influential conjecture about quantum computing has finally been proven – by AI. It confirms that a whole class of mathematical problems would not be more easily solved by quantum computers.
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A decades-old, vastly influential conjecture about quantum computing has finally been proven – by AI. It confirms that a whole class of mathematical problems would not be more easily solved by quantum computers. In 1999, Scott Aaronson of The University of Texas at Austin got stuck on a question about when exactly quantum computers could excel over their conventional counterparts.
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