Who will win? Who, artificial intelligence (AI) or the quantum computer, will be able to save the planet? This is the future predicted for these two cutting-edge technologies by a number of announcements listing the important problems they could solve. Among them: finding more efficient or less rare materials for batteries, helping to better capture CO2identify less energy-intensive methods for synthesizing the ammonia needed for fertilizers… And to achieve this, take on nothing less than one of the greatest challenges in science: modeling the interactions between atoms and molecules.
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The rivals, each adorned with great assets, have, above all, many points in common. Both are based first of all on solid and very old science. Quantum computing dates back to the theory of the same name, developed during the 1920s to describe the properties of matter and its interactions with light. AI is barely younger, born in particular thanks to the work of Alan Turing, father of modern computing, in the 1930s-1950s.
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