Machine learning algorithms are a fascinating set of tools that opened up completely new ways of analytics and evaluations. Modern neural networks outperform human capabilities when it comes to image recognition, reinforcement learning approaches allow computers to learn new tasks with incredible speed and many of the large scientific experiments would not be possible without the application of algorithmes that have learned to deal with the plethora of generated data.

In 2018 the European Union decided to invest 10 billion euros in emerging technologies based on quantum mechanics. This funding initiave is called Quantum flagship and should drive the so called second quantum revolution in Europe.