C4Q: A Chatbot for Quantum
This addresses the difficulty non-experts face in understanding and starting with quantum computing, though it is incremental as it builds on existing conversational agent approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of making quantum computing accessible to non-experts by developing C4Q, a chatbot that accurately answers basic questions and guides users in coding quantum programs, achieving always correct answers through a specialized engine.
Quantum computing is a growing field that promises many real-world applications such as quantum cryptography or quantum finance. The number of people able to use quantum computing is however still very small. This limitation comes from the difficulty to understand the concepts and to know how to start coding. Therefore, there is a need for tools that can assist non-expert in overcoming this complexity. One possibility would be to use existing conversational agents. Unfortunately ChatGPT and other Large-Language Models produce inaccurate results. This article presents C4Q, a chatbot that answers accurately basic questions and guides users when trying to code quantum programs. Contrary to other approaches C4Q uses a pre-trained large language model only to discover and classify user requests. It then generates an accurate answer using an own engine. Thanks to this architectural design, C4Q's answers are always correct, and thus C4Q can become a support tool that makes quantum computing more available to non-experts.