I’ve been always fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking quantum computing and artificial intelligence in everyday computing. It won’t be far that the face of major computing will change to artificial intelligence doing quite a lot of things around us.

This the one of the early steps towards that:

A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer. They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, such as a simple search, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state device for the first time. Their findings appeared in Nature’s advanced online publication June 28. “Our processor can perform only a few very simple quantum tasks, which have been demonstrated before with single nuclei, atoms and photons,” said Robert Schoelkopf, the William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics & Physics at Yale. “But this is the first time they’ve been possible in an all-electronic device that looks and feels much more like a regular microprocessor.” via First Electronic Quantum Processor Created.