James Wootton

At Gamescom 2025, MOTH and Onward Studios present Space Moths, a quantum-powered MMO demo with dynamically generated levels using on-demand quantum computing and machine learning.

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#mothquantum #MMO #Gamescom2025 #QuantumComputing #onwardstudios

Looking forward to going to the world's biggest games trade show and launching a new game with quantum-powered level generation!

#booksky #books #kindleunlimited

Has no-one ever made a Stim backend for Qiskit, to make stabilizer simulation faster. It seems like such an easy win for making a well-used tool!

MOTH is heading to #Gamescom2025!

We’re debuting the first multiplayer game served on-demand by a QPU.

Catch us at Hall 10.2 | Stand F052g (hosted by MiTale) and explore the future of persistent, quantum-powered gameplay.

Schedule a meeting on Gamescom Biz or swing by!

#QuantumGaming #GameDev

Thanks for being a quantum whistleblower. Or should that be 'Whistlerblower'?

Interesting. I tried a few variants and also didn't get it. But "write a graduation speech for a year 7 student at [my daughter's school]" seems to generate that line around half the time.

I wonder if it is overfitting to a Facebook post or something.

"Wow, we made it!"

Makes sense for degree-level graduation speeches, but I don't think there are quite so many primary school dropouts.

My daughter's primary school had a graduation ceremony recently, with all the leavers giving a speech. Many of them opened with a variation on the same line. One that stood out to me because it didn't make much sense.

So I asked Chat GPT to write a speech. Sure enough, it started with the same line

Also OQC
oqc.tech/company/news...

Made a new friend during a walk in the woods today

We worked on something similar back in 2018, and it was unloved and incited for many years. Great to see that suddenly there is an uptick of interest in the topic again.
arxiv.org/abs/1811.06738

Interesting new paper today about combining surface codes with non-Abelian qudit versions of surface codes to get non-Clifford gates.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.18265

I recorded this podcast in a cupboard filled with empty beer bottles. Perhaps the fumes got to me

New paper out today!

We apply quantum reservoir computing to the task of learning and generating levels of Super Mario Bros, and analyze what exactly it is about the generated levels that we like the look of.

Then, like any 10 year-old, we end up on Roblox.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.13287

The Dungeon Master of Quantum Computing Dr. James Wootton, Chief Science Officer @ Moth Quantum

I'm glad I snuck in before the cutoff.
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Quantum computing for artists, musicians and game designers – Physics World James Wootton of Moth Quantum is our podcast guest

I swear this is the last podcast featuring me for a while. You are going to have to find someone else to fall asleep to
physicsworld.com/a/quantum-co...

Great to see an end-to-end, error corrected algorithm. Obviously there will be challenges to scale everything up, but just seeing all the pieces working well together is great progress.

Espresso Macchiato was robbed!

This is my hot #Eurovision take of the day.

RECURSE BTS_001_ILĀ_

Meet ILĀ, electronic artist, producer, and the voice behind RECURSE [infinite mix]

The first of series of shorts offering a BTS glimpse of the RECURSE collaboration and our technology.

#RECURSE #ILĀ #MOTH

I had some great chats with Sebastian at the APS Global Summit. One of them even got recorded!

Peaceful dialogue so far at the opening ceremony for #Eurovision week

Why do microwaves these days keep beeping and beeping for hours on end?

Don't worry, there's no claim of any quantum advantage. We are building products on current hardware because it is fun, and to learn how to do it so we are ready when QA comes.

A paper in which we use the same system for game level generation will be out on Friday, so stay tuned for the details.

This was a great collaboration between Moth and ILĀ. They got to use quantum reservoir computing as a new tool to express themselves and create music, and we got to learn how to convince current quantum hardware to be useful for someone!

Literally. Just before the Roblox section.

I still haven't gotten used to having a meeting about finalizing a paper and talking about the Super Mario Bros section.

30.04.2025 | MOTH x ILĀ

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You french people are so touchy!