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December 10, 2020

Quantum computers will create better versions of Alexa and Siri

Cambridge Quantum Computing has built a “meaning-aware” natural language processing system on a quantum computer.


Maija Palmer

3 min read

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Alexa can tell you the weather, turn on your lights and even tell you a joke. But if you really want to have a meaningful conversation with a computer, it is probably going to have to be a quantum computer.

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