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Okay I'll start:
Is Artificial Intelligence at its core anti-human? Or it is the next stage of human development?

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>>8372918
It's good to separate AI known from science fiction and philosophy from AI known in Computer Science, where it is about finding algorithms and methods for a computer to imitate "intelligent" behaviour. This is not strong AI in Sci Fi sense.
I wouldn't say it's anti human or transumanism.

Can 1024000000 bits of high entropy data be compressed to 1024 bits?

>>8372928
I'm not familiar with Information Theory, but I think there is some theoretical limit to possible compression.

I'm curious, has anyone other than me ever tried for months to think of a sorting algorithm faster than quicksort?

>>8372936
What if we use Quantum Memechanics

>>8372946
I haven't but I've seen a cool joke on /prog/ some time ago.

The O(1) Intelligent Design Sorting algorithm.
Input: Unsorted array
Output: Same array, it is sorted according to some intelligent order that we do not know about or understand.

>>8372949
I've only seen the very basics of quantum informatics, but even there I don't think there was anything about compression, rather distributing encryption keys, using Shor's algorithm to crack RSA etc.

Are all problems that we know so far that are in NP, but we are not sure if are in P, NP-complete?
I'm curious about the idea that the complement of P in NP be the set NP-complete.

Also, does anyone have a good recomendation about the use of multi-agents in aproximation algorithms in problems of optimization?
I have never studied multi-agents before, I'm preparing to try to publish my first article, so a "gentle" introduction would be nice.

>>8373164
You either have a problem in P, NP-hard or NP-Complete class.
If there is no known P algorithm for some problem in NP class, then I think they're in NP class.

>>8373171
I don't know about agents, but I've seen some interesting evolutionary algorithms used for optimization and one of them was Particle Swarm Optimization.
You can find minimum or maximum of a function with many arguments.
If you treat a particle as an agent... nah, probably you won't sell it.
Good luck anyway.

Did anyone manage to actually use a quantum computer to do something "better" than a normal (super) computer?

>>8373186
That's a good question, I don't know, but you may try yourself. IBM has Quantum Experience service, you may create an account there and use their 5 qubit system with a bunch of quantum gates to do some computation. The last time I checked they had a graphical interface to drag and drop the gates on a qubit lines, a simulator and real hardware. It was free when I created the account.