An artificial intelligence system within a network including a plurality of interconnected nodes including a first node and a second node, containing a set of interconnected nodes, a “network,” in which some nodes are externally connected, and all nodes are connected to a subset of the other nodes in such a way that the output channel of one node is connected to the input channel of another via a two-way connection, and where each node has access to the system clock, and has a classical computer (CC), and has a quantum computer (QC), and has one or more input channels, each capable of sending or receiving signals, and has one or more output channels, each capable of sending or receiving signals, and can perform a quantum computation cycle.