Key takeaways
- Qruise builds software that automates the repetitive calibration and characterization tasks that quantum hardware teams currently do by hand
- The company grew out of Shai's own frustration doing this manual tuning work as a physicist, which pushed him to build tools that could learn and repeat the process automatically
- The software is designed to take over grunt work like parameter tuning and system characterization, freeing physicists to focus on harder, non-repetitive problems
- Shai discusses how much of this work can eventually be handled autonomously versus where human judgment still has to stay in the loop
Summary
Shai Machnes, CEO of Qruise, a company developing a machine-learning physicist, which is software that can automate the work of physicists building quantum computers, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Shai and Yuval talk about the genesis of his company, the repetitive tasks that their software can automate, how smart the software can become and much more.
Read the full transcript on The Quantum Computing Report here