Another match made in heaven ...

The ability to process quantum data directly with a quantum device (right) allows one to resolve aspects of our universe exponentially faster than going through a classical intermediate (left). This may allow us to discover novel physical phenomena that would have been practically invisible without such technology. Credit: Google Quantum AI Hook

Yours truly has long said QCs would be perfect for ray tracing as said imaging technique lends itself to any system capable of parallel processing at high level, something QC systems do at speeds far surpassing any digital system due to the fact QCs process data using 0 & 1 at the sane time rather then 0 or 1. Now, researchers are using QC's to leverage AI driven machine learning in ways promising to develop systems of unimagined power as the tech continues to advance 24/7.

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., including Google Quantum AI, and a colleague in Australia, has developed a theory suggesting that quantum computers should be exponentially faster on some learning tasks than classical machines. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their theory and results when tested on Google's Sycamore quantum computer. Vedran Dunjko with Leiden University City has published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the idea behind combining quantum computing with machine learning to provide a new level of computer-based learning systems.

To find out if the idea might be possible, and more importantly, if the results would be better than those achieved on classical computers, the researchers posed the problem in a novel way—they devised a machine learning task that would learn via experiments repeated many times over. They then developed theories describing how a quantum system could be used to conduct such experiments and to learn from them. They found that they were able to prove that a quantum computer could do it, and that it could do it much better than a classical system. In fact, they found a reduction in the required number of experiments needed to learn a concept to be four orders of magnitude lower than for classical systems. The researchers then built such a system and tested it on Google's Sycamore quantum computer and confirmed their theory.

The work suggests that if a usable, real-word quantum computer is ever developed, it might be capable of leaning new things on a nearly unimaginable scale.

IBM Q System One (2019), the first circuit-based commercial quantum computer.