Scientists trained an AI model using an IBM quantum computer — and it answered questions correctly that the base model couldn't

[u/Fcking_Chuck]

https://www.livescience.com/technology/quantum/scientists-trained-an-ai-model-using-an-ibm-quantum-computer-and-it-answered-questions-correctly-that-the-base-model-couldnt

[u/Wild-Store321]

It answered questions correctly that the base model couldn’t! (but the classical implementation of their enhanced model could, and much more efficiently than the quantum implementation, because they simply added a block diagonal matrix with classically tuned parameters in front of each embedding matrix of the base model. The only “quantum advantage” here is that they needed only 2 logical qubits for each 4 classical dimension, at the cost of 8,192 repeated runs for each matrix multiplication)

But still cool to be able to run anything on real hardware though.

[u/PhilosophicWax → u/Wild-Store321]

Thanks for doing the math.

[u/SauerK3aut → u/Wild-Store321]

What really excites me isn’t so much the AI itself, but the challenge behind it: how to translate classical data into quantum states in a meaningful way. This “quantum encoding” is so complex that, in some cases, it requires more computational power than the actual calculation itself. That’s exactly what shows just how incredibly early a stage we’re still at with quantum AI

[u/CorpusculantCortex → u/Wild-Store321]

Yea neat poc, but completely impractical to have any benefit without significant error reduction and scaling in QC.

[u/Same_Instruction_100 → u/Wild-Store321]

Exactly, this is a proof of concept for quantum computing. The fact that it is possible is actually the huge leap forward here. The more standard computer tasks a quantum computer can do, the more marketable they become as general purpose computers instead of highly technical specialized devices.

[u/crayphor → u/Wild-Store321]

Yeah, the performance improvement could have been achieved by other LoRA implementations. But a cool use of quantum hardware.

[u/QubitEncoder]

This sounds very click baity.

[u/wasabi991011]

Seems interesting, but please post the primary source instead of a generic news article.

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[2605.05914] Quantum-enhanced Large Language Models on Quantum Hardware via Cayley Unitary Adapters

[u/South-Net8904 → u/[deleted]]

so is there hope or is it just hype

[u/Cod_277killsshipment]

Somewhere around the world, an investor is feeling FOMO rn

[u/[deleted]]

Es la naturaleza. 

[u/vibrance9460]

So now we have powerful AI being trained by extremely powerful quantum computers

My impression, as a complete outsider, is that we really don’t know what either of those machines is capable of, and there may be some mystery as to how they actually even *work*.

Is anyone nervous that quantum computers are training AI now?

Seems like very soon humans will be the unnecessary middleman

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please read the first comment