Introduction to Quantum Intelligence

【Topic 2: Quantum Intelligence.  Subtopic 2.1: Introduction to Quantum Intelligence】

Around 2010, cloud computing is conceptualized and implemented by IBM, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. They build so-called Mega Datacenters with millions of components for computing, networking and storage.  How to service the outside users and troubleshoot the internal problems becomes a challenge.  Here in my company Transoft, we write some 40 cloud computing patents.  When writing a 2012 patent for cloud’s virtual network, I try to imagine the Mega Datacenter as a human brain.  This brain is able to self-organize knowledge when outside world gives it a stimulus (e.g. a user requests to install or run an application), and self-heal when a trouble of its internal world arises (e.g. a system crashes).

Why does a human brain have the capability of self-organizing and self-healing? 

First, human consciousness (or self-awareness) plays a very basic role.  When we have consciousness, we judge things and solve problems logically or emotionally.  We react with subconscious motion, like those Olympic figure skaters who sometimes fall if their hard-trained procedural habit is disrupted.  Or, there are unconscious instinct motions like heart beating or gastrointestinal motility during sleep.  When there is consciousness, all these motions are through basic brain executive functions of monitor, analysis, plan and execution (MAPE) with different kinds of human memory: episodic, semantic, and procedural.

Next, the above brain is a “quantum brain”, meaning that a brain can process according to quantum physics rules.  This is based on the theories of a great thinker, Stuart Kauffman, and his 2012 book “Reinventing the Sacred”.  In office, or when I travel on airplane, I keep the book with me and read it several times.  Kauffman invents his idea from his medical, biological, and mathematical background.  The book mentions his colleague at the Santa Fe Institute suggests him to learn quantum mechanics for the brain research.  With that knowledge he claims the brain consciousness may be a quantum process. Since I am involved with cloud technology, I kind of conceptualize my own software engineering solution to realize Kauffman’s quantum-brain idea and file another patent in 2013 regarding brain-like computing (i.e. quantum intelligence).

In 2014, I went to Taiwan’s ChiaoTung University as a visiting scholar.  My high-school classmate Prof. Henglin Fu of Dept. of Applied Mathematics suggested me to read a book “Quantum Computing - a Gentle Introduction”.  I then developed my own theory with consciousness defined by rigorous mathematics to prove that quantum consciousness is “computable”, henceforth published the proof in a 2016 international quantum computing conference.

Afterwards, I spent two years in my Transoft company to learn from our CTO Paul Wang his “emergence-oriented AI” which resolves datacenter problems intelligently.  Paul was a technology genius.  About 2/3 of my 42 patents were originated from his ideas.  His emergence-oriented AI was very much in line with my 2013 quantum intelligence patent and my theoretical work of quantum intelligence during my stay at ChiaoTung Univ.  Although Paul did not have a formal training in quantum computing, his way of quantum-inspired thinking regarding intelligence really amazed me.  Unfortunately, most of the Transoft engineers could not absorb his advanced thinking.  I then managed to conceptualize a virtual machine of artificial intelligence (AIVM).

Around 2018, rudimentary quantum processor hardware and huge amount of open source quantum computing software were available freely from IBM, DWave and Rigetti.  I took an online course “Quantum Machine Learning” from Toronto University, using machines from these companies.  This course did not yet reach the level of my quantum intelligence or brain-like computing research, but could provide basic mechanisms to realize virtual machines of Quantum intelligence (QIVM).  

I believe now is the right timing to implement QIVM.