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AIs Now Speak Quantum! (Sort Of)

01 June 2026 · The Neural Feed
AIs Now Speak Quantum! (Sort Of) – Neural Toons comic

“AI's quantum leap is a baby step, but a step nonetheless!”

The story behind the toon

What happened: AI is good at normal code, but quantum hardware code is a whole new level of difficulty. A new dataset (QASM-Eval) with 4,000 training tasks was used to train LLMs on OpenQASM-3. AI assistants can now reliably program NISQ-era quantum computers. It's for NISQ-era quantum, which is limited, and the code is still complex.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “QASM-Eval: A Dataset to Train and Evaluate LLMs on OpenQASM-3 Beyond Quantum Circuits”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Mia: AI writes code. But *quantum* code?

Panel 1 – Jake: Like, for quantum computer *parts*?

Panel 1 – Fact: AI is good at normal code, but quantum hardware code is a whole new level of difficulty.

Panel 2 – Mia: They trained AIs on 4,000 quantum hardware tasks.

Panel 2 – Jake: 4,000?! That's super specific!

Panel 2 – Fact: A new dataset (QASM-Eval) with 4,000 training tasks was used to train LLMs on OpenQASM-3.

Panel 3 – Mia: AIs can now help program early quantum machines.

Panel 3 – Jake: So, quantum tech gets here quicker?!

Panel 3 – Fact: AI assistants can now reliably program NISQ-era quantum computers.

Panel 4 – Mia: It's for early, error-prone quantum computers.

Panel 4 – Jake: So, no instant super-AI powers yet?

Panel 4 – Fact: It's for NISQ-era quantum, which is limited, and the code is still complex.

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