Researchers put machine learning on path to quantum advantage
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

There are high hopes that quantum computing`s tremendous processing power will someday unleash exponential advances in artificial intelligence. AI systems thrive when the machine learning algorithms used to train them are given massive amounts of data to ingest, classify and analyze. The more precisely that data can be classified according to specific characteristics, or features, the better the AI will perform. Quantum computers are expected to play a crucial role in machine learning, including the crucial aspect of accessing more computationally complex feature spaces - the fine-grain aspects of data that could lead to new insights.