Google Is Working on a Chip that Lets Machines Think Like Humans

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Google Is Working on a Chip that Lets Machines Think Like Humans
AFP
‎Sep‎ ‎03‎, ‎2014



San Francisco (AFP) - Google said it is working on a super-fast “quantum” computer chip as part a vision to one day have machines think like humans.

The Internet titan on Tuesday added renowned researcher John Martinis and his team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to the Quantum Artificial Intelligence team at Google, according to director of engineering Hartmut Neven.

The new hires are part of a “hardware initiative” to design and build chips operating on sub-atomic levels in ways making them exponentially faster than processors currently used in computers,

"With an integrated hardware group the Quantum AI team will now be able to implement and test new designs," Neven said of the quest for a transformative new chip.

Last year, Google’s artificial intelligence lab partnered with US space agency NASA on quantum computing research.


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Google looks to build quantum computer chips
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By Don Reisinger  36 minutes ago






Google is expanding its efforts in quantum computing with a new hardware initiative as part of its Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Google's Quantum AI team announced Tuesday that it will start designing and building quantum information processors that are based on "superconducting electronics." This will eventually let the Quantum AI Lab conduct quantum computing research using hardware based on its own designs.

Google has partnered with UC Santa Barbara physicist John Martinis and his team to build out the processors. Martinis is a leader in the field of quantum research and was awarded the London Prize earlier this year for his work in quantum information processing and computing.

"With an integrated hardware group the Quantum AI team will now be able to implement and test new designs for quantum optimization and inference processors based on recent theoretical insights as well as our learnings from the D-Wave quantum annealing architecture," wrote Hartmut Neven, Google's director of engineering, in a Google+ post on Tuesday.

The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, launched back in 2013, is a collaboration between Google, NASA's Ames Research Center, and the Universities Space Research Association. The group aims to study how quantum computing can be optimized to advance machine learning.


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