How Three Types of Computers Relate to AI

James Livingood
3 min readApr 11, 2024
Combining Computers to make AI — https://pixabay.com/illustrations/transformation-digitization-brain-6941381/

So the computer everyone knows and loves is a digital computer. How this works is fairly simple: electricity is measured and if it’s over or below a threshold it is either a 1 or 0. To measure more than just a single number at a time, you put in more components.

The second computer type is quantum. In this computer we use trapped ions, electrons, and photons to serve as the basis of…

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