2. Introduction to Quantum Intelligence

【What is (general) intelligence?】

In previous topic we learn Russell Ackoff in his 1972 book defines intelligence as a combination of knowledge and understanding.  Furthermore, Ackoff’s DIKW Pyramid provides a broad framework that includes not only intelligence sublayer but its lower sublayers of data and information, as well as its upper sublayer of wisdom.  If we further divide wisdom into three blocks from bottom to top: lower block of understanding, itself, and upper block of tradeoff / decision making, then this pyramid consists of 7 layers from bottom to top: database, information management, knowledgebase / ontology, understanding, multi-agent system, emergence / emotion and leverage. 

In 2007, Swiss scholar Marcus Hutter refines the definition of intelligence as abilities to solve problems – this is one of the reasons our first topic is problem solving.  Hutter’s theory is based on abilities of an individual agent to interact, learn and adapt to different objectives and environments.  This implies the agent’s understanding ability relies on how the agent learns, interacts, and adapts to its environments.

Obviously, the agent must work with data, information, and knowledge (or what we call “experience”) in order to be intelligent.  And how to organize them relates to other technology, such as semantics.  See diagram below.

【What is quantum intelligence?】

My patent of quantum intelligence extends Hutter definition further to include quantum algorithms with emotion / emergence (including intuition) beyond logics.  This “general intelligence” capability can be facilitated by current artificial intelligence algorithms of conventional (classical) computing, such as complex adaptive system and multi-agent system. 

Our second topic answers the question: "what is quantum intelligence?"  A short answer is "the use of quantum computer mimicking human intelligence to solve problems".   The back of this capability involves quantum algorithms, quantum nature of human intelligence and how traditional computer can help quantum computer to facilitate the problem solving.  These are the subtopics of quantum intelligence.