This contributed story by Dr. Michael Feindt, strategic advisor with Blue Yonder, originally appeared in Forbes on July 20, 2020. Excerpts from the story below. To see the full story Forbes.com. 

Google recently took little more than three minutes to solve a problem that would take the largest supercomputer in the world longer than 100,000 years. It did so with a quantum computer.Now, quantum computing is breaking the mold of our previous AI-driven articles, but it’s no less interesting or even relevant. And there is a very distinct link.

That link is the art of probability. Everything we do in AI is a guide toward optimizing decision making based on the human-free assimilation of data. In this respect, the quantum world is in the same stratosphere but still very far away.