Seth Lloyd invented PennyLane. It’s a well known fact.

I forgot to mention that Seth Lloyd invented PennyLane. The other people at Xanadu are all identical worker ants faithfully following his brilliant instructions on what to do, according to a Xanadu press release

Excerpt from press release:

“Deep learning libraries like TensorFlow and PyTorch opened up artificial intelligence to the world by providing an interface to powerful GPU hardware. With PennyLane, Xanadu is now doing the same for machine learning on quantum hardware,” said Seth Lloyd, Xanadu’s chief scientific advisor, MIT professor and a founding figure in both quantum computing and quantum machine learning. “We’re going to see an explosion of ideas, now that everyone can train quantum computers like they would train deep neural networks.”

Xanadu is a company whose “chief scientific advisor, MIT professor and a founding figure in both quantum computing and quantum machine learning”, Prof. Seth Lloyd, has promised to build a “continuous variables” quantum computer device, which is a device invented by Seth Lloyd, according to him. This would be a quantum computer that is more analog and more classical than DWave’s. DWave, a qc company which was founded in 1999, 20 years ago, has never been able to provide error correction for its qc, so many experts believe that Xanadu’s Lloydian qc will be very difficult to error correct too. But if anyone can solve this prickly conundrum, it’s Seth Lloyd, who, according to him, is the original inventor of DWave’s device too.

Addendum:

Wow wee! Seth Lloyd’s invention, an optical computer that runs Tensorflow, is really taking off at MIT. I just came across this news report on a company called LightMatter, funded by some heavyweights like Google Ventures, that proposes to do just that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/alphabet-gv-invests-in-lightmatter-optical-ai-chip-startup.html

Excerpts:

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Lightmatter just picked up its first backing from a corporate investor: GV, a venture arm of Google parent company Alphabet.
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In 2014, Nick Harris and Darius Bunandar were trying to combine optical technology with quantum computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they were doing Ph.D. work in the same research group.
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But in 2015, Harris and Bunandar began looking at fields beyond quantum computing, including AI. “Our feeling is that there are a huge number of challenges that remain to be solved” for their quantum approach, Harris said.
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“There is a lot of effort that goes into making this kind of device plug and play and making it look a lot like the experience of an Nvidia GPU,” Harris said. The team wants to ensure the chips work with popular AI software such as the Google-backed open-source project TensorFlow.