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Artificial intelligence has generated recognisable images of things like shoes and T-shirts on a small quantum computer. They aren’t great, but the method could scale up to more powerful machines
MosaiQ’s generated images (bottom row) on a quantum computer look similar to items in the initial data (top row) and seem better than those made by other quantum methods (other rows)
Daniel Silver et al. 2023
Artificial intelligence running on a quantum computer can now generate recognisable images of things like shoes and T-shirts, using the same methods as popular text-to-image tools like Dall-E or Midjourney. They still aren’t what you would call stunning images, but if the method scales up to more powerful machines, it should lead to much higher-resolution pictures.
Generative adversarial networks …
Article amended on 9 October 2023
We have corrected the name of the lead author of this research.
