Let’s Talk Quantum AI

Last week saw Sorbonne University and the University of Sydney hold a joint virtual workshop on Quantum AI. Here, a scientist from each institution reflects on the challenges and exciting possibilities for its future use in the real world. What excites you about your current research?. Dr Valentina Parigi: I currently work with multimode quantum optical fields and in particular, my project consists of arranging them in complex network structures, which are used in quantum information protocols. I'm really excited by the idea that complex network theory, which has been developed for real-world social, biological and technological networks, has turned out to be apt at describing our quantum optical systems. Dr Ben Brown:  My research, on quantum error correction, investigates how to build a large-scale quantum computer that can work in a noisy environment. This is a difficult but essential problem that still needs to be solved to realize useful quantum technologies.