{"id":31915,"date":"2025-08-30T00:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31915\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:53:20","slug":"the-real-quest-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31915\/","title":{"rendered":"The real quest \u2013 Gadget"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The clock is ticking down to the realisation of\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI<\/a>\u00a0and the sought-after \u201cquantum\u00a0advantage\u201d. In many boardrooms, however,\u00a0quantum\u00a0remains mysterious: full of promise but not fully understood.<\/p>\n

Still, desire to profit from being first on the scene is already driving significant spending. A recent\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0from data and\u00a0AI\u00a0leader SAS found that 3 in 5 business leaders are now exploring or actively investing in the space.<\/p>\n

Potential use cases are emerging in high-stakes industries in which speed, scale and precision matter most \u2013 from next-gen risk simulation in finance to precision diagnostics in healthcare to real-time disaster response planning in government.<\/p>\n

Below, Amy Stout, SAS head of\u00a0quantum\u00a0product strategy, and Bill Wisotsky, SAS principal quantum\u00a0systems architect, give the scoop on the current\u00a0quantum\u00a0conversation. That includes defining\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0and the\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage, considering the timeline to a defining\u00a0quantum\u00a0moment, and explaining why decision makers, the media and the public should care about this technology.<\/p>\n

What is\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Stout:<\/strong>\u00a0Quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0is the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing, a new type of computation.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s laptops and supercomputers run on what we call classical computing, and function using binary bits, which can be zero or one.\u00a0Quantum\u00a0computers fundamentally work differently. They function using qubits, or\u00a0quantum\u00a0bits, which can be 0, 1 or a combination of both at the same time.<\/p>\n

It sounds complicated, but basically, tapping into\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0can help solve specific types of problems with greater speed and\/or accuracy. It\u2019s expected to be most helpful in optimisation, machine learning and molecular modeling, which can impact different industries \u2013 like financial services, manufacturing, life sciences and many more.<\/p>\n

What is the \u2018quantum\u00a0advantage\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Wisotsky:<\/strong>\u00a0In the news, there are constant reports about\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage. These stories typically involve speed, with research showing that a\u00a0quantum\u00a0computer could solve a problem in hours that would take conventional computers hundreds of thousands of years. These problems are very specific and designed to demonstrate how\u00a0quantum\u00a0computers operate. Though these are important steps in research, they have nothing to do with useful applications for real-world customers. All too often, the media views\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage as one-dimensional, but the\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage isn\u2019t only about speed \u2013 it\u2019s multidimensional.<\/p>\n

For example, in\u00a0quantum\u00a0machine learning, the advantage could be the ability to encode data into a higher-dimensional representations achieved by\u00a0quantum\u00a0physics that traditional machine learning can\u2019t, and\/or the ability to train models with less data.\u00a0Quantum\u00a0advantage could also mean a significant reduction in power usage that\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing requires.<\/p>\n

This gets to the centre of my argument. When trying to solve applied problems with\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing, the\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage needs to be judged multidimensionally, using applied criteria that benefit the business trying to leverage this technology. Yes, it could be about speed, but it could also include many other possibilities.<\/p>\n

Are we reaching a\u00a0quantum\u00a0inflection point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Stout:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s a running joke in the\u00a0quantum\u00a0space \u2013\u00a0quantum\u00a0is three to five years away, every year. Many experts are trying to be realistic about the state of the market. We don\u2019t want people to come in thinking that\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0is going to solve all their problems right now. There are multiple types of hardware and multiple vendors that are all developing\u00a0quantum\u00a0computers working to achieve the scale, speed, and accuracy that will be needed for these computers to provide tangible benefit for real-world, production-sized problems.\u00a0Quantum\u00a0has not yet reached that widespread technological maturity.<\/p>\n

However, there is already much interest and investment in\u00a0quantum\u00a0today, and rightfully so. We\u2019re seeing industry leaders investing in\u00a0quantum, fully aware that in 2025 they likely won\u2018t get advancements that impact their bottom lines. What they will get is that first-mover advantage, including in-house expertise and intellectual property, for when the technology is more mature.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an optimist, and I look at hardware providers\u2019 R&D roadmaps and what\u2019s been achieved over the last three to five years and what\u2019s on the horizon for the next three to five years. I think we stand a good chance at seeing these computers able to provide\u00a0quantum\u00a0advantage for problems we\u2019d consider low-hanging fruit relatively soon. From there, I hope that we\u2019ll continue seeing examples of the heights we believe\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0could achieve.<\/p>\n

Why should people care about\u00a0quantum?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Wisotsky:<\/strong>\u00a0Simply,\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing could change the world. There are so many use cases, but the two areas I think will be most affected by\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing are\u00a0AI\u00a0and medicine. As\u00a0quantum\u00a0computers get more powerful, and our knowledge on how to use them evolves,\u00a0AI\u00a0will be able to take advantage of the physics that\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing uses for its computation.<\/p>\n

I think medicine will greatly benefit in the areas of drug discovery and\u00a0biologics, with researchers gaining the ability to represent and model complex molecular and biological processes in ways that are currently impossible. That could look like researchers discovering better drugs and bringing them to market faster, accelerating processes that would\u2019ve taken a decade of development otherwise.<\/p>\n

However, in the future, I don\u2019t think average users will even know they\u2019re using\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing to accomplish their goals. I see\u00a0quantum\u00a0computing being almost like another accelerator, like all the \u201cPUs\u201d we currently have. Are average users aware that the application they are using is running on a CPU, GPU or NPU? No, they just use the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clock is ticking down to the realisation of\u00a0quantum\u00a0AI\u00a0and the sought-after \u201cquantum\u00a0advantage\u201d. In many boardrooms, however,\u00a0quantum\u00a0remains mysterious: full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[25050,25051,314,18,1176,19,17,610,25052,25053,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-31915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-amy-stout","9":"tag-bill-wisotsky","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-machine-learning","16":"tag-quantum-ai","17":"tag-quantum-ai-survey","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}