Quantinuum (the world’s largest quantum computing company) and Chubu University in Japan recently announced a new and timely partnership, co-led by two global experts in quantum models of artificial intelligence, Professors Bob Coecke and Masanao Ozawa. As recognized leaders in their field, they will establish an interdisciplinary team to explore quantum computational linguistics and cognition aimed at building future applications in quantum artificial intelligence.
For two decades, Professor Coecke has been pioneering research in categorical quantum mechanics and quantum computational linguistics, first at Oxford University, now at Quantinuum and is the acknowledged leader in Quantum Artificial Intelligence. And Professor Ozawa, a pioneer in quantum information and foundations derived a new measurement-disturbance relation (Ozawa’s Inequality) in 2003 that corrects the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,” and in 2012 succeeded in its experimental verification. He has since led research into a quantum operational approach to cognitive psychology.
As a multi-year project, this collaboration will focus on developing compositional models for cognition with potential applications for taking advantage of the latest generation of quantum computers.
This partnership builds on earlier discoveries by Coecke and Ozawa that there are parallels between quantum and cognitive systems – exploring the application of the mathematical structures of quantum theory to observed features of human language and cognition. And it is hoped that this work may explain a range of intractable problems, such as the role of context in generating meaning in text or cognitive phenomena like the “question order effect.”
Bob Coecke
Chief Scientist at Quantinuum / Head of Quantinuum’s Oxford-based Quantum NLP & Compositional Quantum Intelligence group / Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics / Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford / A Visiting Fellow at the Computer Science Department and the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University.
Masanao Ozawa
Designated Professor of Mathematical Science and Artificial Intelligence at Chubu University / Steering Committee Member of Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences / Emeritus Professor at Nagoya University. And he received the Mathematical Society of Japan Prize in 2008, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2010, the International Quantum Communication Award in 2010, and the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Cabinet Office of Japan in 2015.
KEY QUOTES:
“The pioneering work of Professors Ozawa and Coecke reveals the enormous and increasingly relevant potential of quantum computing to truly revolutionize artificial intelligence. Both linguistics and cognition remain intractable to classical computing simulations, but both are amenable to being fully and responsibly exploited by quantum computing. Quantinuum supports transformative work at every stage in the development of quantum computers and the applications and algorithms that use them. Fields like AI have long been synonymous with advances in quantum computing and Quantinuum has established itself as the world-leader in the application of quantum computing to areas related to cognition, such as quantum natural language processing and quantum machine learning.”
— Founder and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum Ilyas Khan
