3 ms·

VW also does science ? Nice to know. Is it related to battery technology etc ? Or such companies usually invest in fundamental research ?

• iamlucaswolf 8y ago
  They do. As an annecdote, the professor who formerly held the "Machine Learning" course at TU Munich left for VW's AI research group (https://argmax.ai https://argmax.ai) a few years ago. Whether that qualifies as "science" may be debatable, but the larger players in the automotive space are definitely invested in this kind of research.
• ams6110 8y ago
  They do. These days, battery chemistry is probably very interesting to them. Earlier, it would have been problems such as optimizing combustion chamber shape, etc.
• jlg23 8y ago
  From the article: His group’s paper runs down a wish list of quantum chemistry simulations that sufficiently robust quantum computation should be able to tackle. Such problems include designing next-generation batteries, optimizing solar cells via detailed study of photosynthesis, and faithfully simulating complex molecules without resorting to approximations that conventional computers must rely on to make the simulations tractable.
• jonstewart 8y ago
  They’re expert at hiding emissions results, among other things.
• delecti 8y ago
  Quantum computing is also of interest to self-driving cars. I know that at least some other big car companies do quantum computing work for that reason. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a test of sorts.