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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((volume 1229)) Included in the following conference series: Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) is the convergence of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, offering unprecedented computational capabilities. Quantum AI is capable of revolutionizing machine learning, optimization, and decision-making by leveraging quantum aspects such as entanglement, superposition, and quantum parallelism. However, significant challenges remain in realizing its full potential. This paper investigates how quantum algorithms enhance AI efficiency, the optimization techniques applicable to AI, the key challenges hindering adoption, and the future advancements required for real-world implementation.

By addressing these aspects, this study explores the fundamental challenges of Quantum AI, including hardware limitations, algorithmic complexity, workforce shortages, and the lack of standardized development frameworks. It also highlights key areas for future research, including advancements in quantum hardware, optimization of quantum algorithms, expansion of workforce training programs, and standardization of development tools. As Quantum AI matures, it is expected to drive breakthroughs in multiple industries, such as cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and industrial optimization, paving the way for next-generation AI-driven innovation. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Ahmadi.: Quantum computing and artificial intelligence: the synergy of two revolutionary technologies. Asian J.

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Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. A version of this article originally appeared in Quartz’s AI & Tech newsletter. Sign up here to get the latest AI & tech news, analysis and insights straight to your inbox. For years, artificial intelligence and quantum computing were the dual darlings of tech hype cycles: promised to revolutionize everything while delivering little beyond laboratory demos and venture capital pitches. Then ChatGPT arrived, and suddenly AI was real, ubiquitous, and bringing in large amounts of investments.

Now quantum computing, still largely confined to laboratories with specialized hardware, may finally get its moment, too — pulled along by AI's momentum. The two technologies are converging in ways that benefit both. AI is helping build better quantum computers, optimizing algorithms and developing real-time error correction that could bring fault-tolerant quantum machines closer to reality. Meanwhile, quantum processors show promise for specific AI tasks like fraud detection, generating synthetic datasets for training AI models, and potentially slashing the enormous energy costs plaguing current AI systems. It's less a merger than a mutual assistance pact between technologies that excel at fundamentally different problems. AI is proving indispensable for tackling quantum's biggest challenges.

Nvidia’s collaboration with Google Quantum AI shows how this works in practice. The chipmaker's platform helped simulate the physics of quantum processors, crucial work for understanding and reducing "noise" — the errors that plague quantum hardware and limit how long calculations can run. Simulations that would have taken a week now finish in minutes. Across the industry, machine learning tools are improving quantum circuit design and error correction, helping address the scaling challenges quantum systems face. In the long arc of human history, there are moments when the very foundations of knowledge shift, when what was once unimaginable suddenly becomes possible. Fire, the printing press, electricity, the internet—each of these breakthroughs reshaped society, expanding what humans could achieve.

Today, we stand at the threshold of another such transformation: the union of quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence already feels like magic in our daily lives. It translates languages instantly, generates human-like conversations, creates images from imagination, diagnoses diseases, and powers self-driving cars. Yet even with all this progress, AI still runs on the classical computing hardware that has powered the digital age for decades. These machines, no matter how fast, are constrained by binary logic—ones and zeros. Quantum computing, on the other hand, taps into the strange and beautiful rules of quantum mechanics.

It does not think in binaries but in probabilities, superpositions, and entanglements. While still in its infancy, quantum computing promises an unprecedented leap in processing power and problem-solving capacity. When combined with AI, the potential becomes staggering: algorithms that learn faster, analyze deeper, and solve challenges beyond the reach of today’s technology. To explore what breakthroughs might emerge when quantum computing meets AI, we must first understand each on its own terms, and then imagine the future they could create together. Artificial intelligence is the attempt to replicate aspects of human cognition in machines. Its roots stretch back to mid-20th-century pioneers like Alan Turing, who asked whether machines could think.

From those early days of symbolic reasoning and rule-based systems, AI has blossomed into an ecosystem of machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and neural networks that mimic the architecture of the brain. Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 10829 (2025) Cite this article Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements over the past few years have had an unprecedented and revolutionary impact across everyday application areas. Its significance also extends to technical challenges within science and engineering, including the nascent field of quantum computing (QC). The counterintuitive nature and high-dimensional mathematics of QC make it a prime candidate for AI’s data-driven learning capabilities, and in fact, many of QC’s biggest scaling challenges may ultimately rest on developments in AI. However, bringing leading techniques from AI to QC requires drawing on disparate expertise from arguably two of the most advanced and esoteric areas of computer science.

Here we aim to encourage this cross-pollination by reviewing how state-of-the-art AI techniques are already advancing challenges across the hardware and software stack needed to develop useful QC - from device design to applications. We then close by examining its future opportunities and obstacles in this space. Quantum computing (QC) has the potential to impact every domain of science and industry, but it has become increasingly clear that delivering on this promise rests on tightly integrating fault-tolerant quantum hardware with accelerated... Such large-scale quantum supercomputers form a heterogeneous architecture with the ability to solve certain otherwise intractable problems. Many of these problems, such as chemical simulation or optimization, are projected to have significant scientific, economic and societal impact1. However, transitioning hardware from noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices to fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) faces a number of challenges.

Though recent quantum error correction (QEC) demonstrations have been performed2,3, all popular qubit modalities suffer from hardware noise, preventing the below-threshold operation needed to perform fault-tolerant computations. But even qubits performing below threshold face scaling obstacles. FTQC is demanding and necessitates more resourceful QEC codes, faster decoder algorithms, and carefully designed qubit architectures. Both QC hardware research and current quantum algorithms also require further development with explorations of more resource-efficient techniques, having the potential to dramatically shorten the roadmap to useful quantum applications. Though high-performance computing (HPC)4,5,6, and in particular, accelerated GPU computing7,8, already drives QC research through circuit and hardware simulations, the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) paradigms9 has only just begun. Foundational AI models10, characterized by their broad training data and ability to adapt to a wide array of applications, are emerging as an extremely effective way to leverage accelerated computing for QC.

While the architecture landscape of these models is diverse, transformer models11 have proven particularly powerful, and especially popularized by OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models12,13. There is already a strong precedent for these models being applied to technical yet pragmatic tasks in other fields, ranging from biomedical engineering14 to materials science15. Bringing the deep utility and broad applicability of such models to bear on the problems facing QC is a key goal of this review. Quantum Computing and AI: A Convergence of Revolutionary Technologies The fields of quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are at the forefront of technological innovation. As these two domains converge, they promise to unlock unprecedented computational power and transform industries.

This post explores the current state of both technologies, their synergistic potential, and the challenges that lie ahead. Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to perform calculations that are beyond the reach of classical computers. Key concepts include: AI has evolved from rule-based systems to complex neural networks. Key milestones include: The convergence of quantum computing and AI offers transformative possibilities:

“Quantum machines won’t give us bigger spreadsheets; they’ll hand us brand-new laws of nature.”— an engineer friend after his first qubit demo We’ve hit an inflection point. Quantum computing and artificial intelligence used to live in different conference halls: one crowd chasing low-temperature physics, the other tweaking neural nets. Now the corridors connect. Put the two together and you don’t just speed up code — you create entirely new ways to explore reality. I still remember my first encounter with a dilution refrigerator.

It hummed like a polite fridge while coaxing qubits into superposition. At the time, my day job involved teaching GPUs to spot cats in YouTube videos. The gulf between those worlds felt permanent. Today that gulf is a puddle. Researchers sling tensors from PyTorch straight into quantum circuits, and the phrase “quantum computing and artificial intelligence” appears in grant proposals more often than “synergy” did in the nineties. This article is a field report from that convergence.

We’ll keep the math gentle yet precise, lean on real lab stories, and stay brutally honest about what works, what’s hype, and what’s lurking beyond the hype. Classical supercomputers already crunch weather models, simulate galaxies, and run large language models that chat back to us. Why chase qubits? Because certain problems blow up exponentially on classical bits but scale politely on qubits. Pair that with AI’s knack for pattern-hunting and you have quantum computing and artificial intelligence acting as co-pilots.

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