alt Hacker NewsNearly all of quantum computation is theoretical algorithms and the hard engineering problems haven't been solved. Most of the math though has a large amount of overlap of AI / ML and all of deep learning to the point that Quantum computers could be used as "ML accelerators" by using algorithms (this is called Quantum Machine learning) [1]. Quantum computing could be learned with a limited understanding of Quantum theory unless you are trying to engineer the hardware.
Possibly of interest, but I wrote a (hopefully approachable) report on quantum perceptrons a few years back [1]. Perhaps it's found elsewhere, but I was surprised by how, at least in this quantum algo's case, the basis of training was game theoretic not gradient descent!
[1] - https://kvathupo.github.io/cs/quantum/457_Final_Report.pdf