Dr. Raymond Laflamme at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On March 29th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 29th, 2022 / 5:25 p.m.

Professor of Physics, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, As an Individual

I'll make a comment and leave it to my colleagues to say more.

I have one little correction. AI is independent of quantum. There's a lot of AI technology on classical computers, which is being used in many different areas.

Then there is the question of whether quantum can really help AI. I think the question has not been resolved yet. There are indications that it could help, but we are not totally sure. There are research programs in Canada. I have one of my research staff looking at some of these issues right now, and other places around Canada will do that—

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