When you listen to quantum enthusiasts, you may feel tempted to treat QML as an emerging silver bullet, which it isn’t.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning that addresses problems where there is no explicit training data. Q-learning is an algorithm that can be used to solve some types of RL ...

At issue was an algorithm called Q* (pronounced “Q-star”), which has allegedly been shown to solve certain grade-school-level math problems that it hasn’t seen before.

OpenAI Qstar algorithm Watch this video on YouTube. What makes the Q* algorithm particularly powerful is its combination of Q-learning with advanced pathfinding techniques.

— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) November 23, 2023 Q* seems to be the system that has given Microsoft the confidence to invest $50 billion per year to scale the solution to AGI or ASI (aka human or beyond ...