@bunnyknight said
@humy
So which would have a greater chance of becoming self-aware and self-evolving: a quantum-computer or a classical super-computer?
Quite simply, a quantum computer, at least by itself, has absolutely NO chance of ever being what we vaguely call 'self-aware' or 'conscious' with 'mind' or even what we would normally call merely 'intelligent'! A quantum computer would basically be an extremely powerful but nevertheless extremely dumb calculator!
So only a classical AI computer can have the attribute of true intelligence although such an AI may still find a quantum computer useful to speed up some of its important calculations.
Think of that analogies to:
If the AI is analogies to a human then the quantum computer is analogies to his pocket calculator; Yes, his pocket calculator can do certain useful calculations zillions of times faster than he can, but, its still completely stupid and only the human, not his calculator, has the real intelligence.
An ant would have more general intelligence than any quantum computer no matter how advanced at least providing that computer computer isn't hybridized with a classical computer.
I am far far less certain of the potential of possible quantum-classical computer hybrids for AI; I am afraid I can only make wild speculations about that.