How is this related to AI in any way? Is it just branded as AI to get some share of that sweet AI money (Probably Google only allows funding new projects if they are AI related at this point)
I had the same question. The site suggests it is a serious research organization focused on quantum computing—but with no obvious connection to artificial intelligence that I could find.
Archived versions of the website [1] mention work on machine learning more prominently, as do some of the linked research publications from a few years back [2].
Perhaps the unit was given the name AI initially but its focus later shifted to quantum computing?
Later: A Google blog post from 2021 explains the connection of quantum to AI better than the current website does [3].
I asked this exact question to one of the leaders of QuantumAI, and he explained it’s a leftover name from when this started out with an idea by some researcher at Google that is no longer part of the project.
I thought you were being hyperbolic and that this was maybe related to quantum neural networks or ML in at least some way, but no - you seem to be totally correct that this is about as 'AI' as snake oil health products are 'quantum.'
