When the words quantum and AI turn up in the same sentence, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the problem of consciousness and the theory that conscciousness is a quantum phenomenon. But there are other reaons that quantum computing might be interesting to AI researchers, some of them as simple as the need for improved ranndom number generation for genetic algorithms. A new paper was posted online recently by Kyriakos N. Sgarbas titled, The Road to Quantum Artificial Intelligence (PDF format), explains some of the way in which quantum computing might benefit AI research.