Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234629 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2021-14
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Zürich
Abstract: 
Despite the great promises and potential of quantum computing, the full range of possibilities and practical applications is not yet clear. In this contribution, we highlight the potential for quantum theories and computation to reignite the art and science of expert systems and knowledge engineering. With their grounding in uncertainty and unpredictability, quantum concepts are able to expand theoretical and practical boundaries of research and exploration. We demonstrate the advantages of using quantum logic and computation when applying expert knowledge such as the ability to ask imprecise (inherently probabalistic) queries and do so e complicated computational spaces by leveraging quantum concepts such as superposition, entanglement, parallelism, and interference to sustain and manipulate networks of quantum qubits. This, we argue, can provide non-insignificant computational speedups and enable more complex data representations and analysis. We then explore three practical applications and provide evidence for their quantum advantages - Scientific Discovery, Creativity and Breakthrough Thinking, Complex Systems, and Future of Sports - that we regard as largely unexplored in popular accounts of quantum theory; as such, we suggest these are low hanging fruit for the more-immediately feasible applications of quantum technologies.
Subjects: 
Quantum
Expert Systems
Knowledge
Problem-Solving
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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