>I don't know what to do with it Physical implementations of quantum computers are in their early stages. These near-term quantum computers will be used for s

>I don't know what to do with it Physical implementations of quantum computers are in their early stages. These near-term quantum computers will be used for simulating quantum mechanics and approximating solutions to some optimization problems. > automated self-driving or solving a chess game There has been some research for applying quantum computers to machine learning problems. An unsupervised machine learning method was recently prototyped on a quantum processor [0]. With respect to practical applications for machine learning; I suggest you wait a couple of years for quantum processors to become more mature. I also suggest that you start to get familiar with this new paradigm of computing right now if you are interested in these potential applications. >representing neural network transform that I'm not savvy There has been some research on quantum neural networks [1]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15952758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15952758 [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11240 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11240