The truth about quantum computing | Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson explains the basis of quantum computing, and asks what it can really achieve.

Is the technology overhyped?

Quantum computing has turned into a phrase that the tech industry will sprinkle on almost anything to help raise funds and generate sales. As a result, there is a tsunami of hype about what quantum computers are going to revolutionise. Join leading quantum computing specialist Scott Aaronson as he challenges the hype and tells us what is really going on.

#quantummechanics #quantumphysics #quantumcomputing #computerscience

Scott Aaronson is one of the top quantum complexity theorists in the world, renowned for both his research in quantum computing and computational complexity theory. Aaronson is famous for his popular blog Shtetl Optimized, which has kept the scientific community up to date on quantum hype for nearly the past two decades. His research and popular writing have earned him numerous awards, including the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Alan T. Waterman Award. Aaronson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, but took leave of his academic commitments in 2022 to work at OpenAI.

00:00 Introduction
2:27 What is a quantum computer?
3:36 Quantum mechanics explained in 5 minutes
8:52 Quantum qubits
10:23 The Born rule explained
13:51 The birth of quantum computing

[TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

Is quantum computing overhyped? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

[rdubeau]

REALLY ANNOYING. You don’t find out til the end of this clip that the actual talk is NOT HERE. Went to your link to hear the actual talk and of course it is broken and wants you to register, sign up, something but why would you? Trust already broken

[ahmedgabr]

Hands down the best explanation I've ever seen not just for Quantum Computers, but also Quantum Mechanics.

[chekote]

I tried watching the full video but your website is broken AF. I can’t sign up for a free trial

[christinak]

I really like how he’s able to explain this difficult topic in a simple way! I instantly like him, such a smart and friendly person! Could listen for hours! 👌👍

[itsallgoodaversa]

Scott is the best. I kind of want to buy him a belt.

[SandipChitale]

About what Scott say's at 8:15 so if only one slit is open and the amplitude is only negative what does that mean? So we take get the probability - we first let the amplitudes interact and then take the square of the result? Or if only positive or only negative is present - after taking the square it will give be positive even if the amplitude was negative?

[JarkkoToivonen]

Quantum computers sounds more like sci-fi than science.

[rootyroot]

Shouldn't have to pay a website to watch Educational videos like this..

[dadsonworldwide]

Approximating complex systems and simplifying it into intellectual bits and pieces like artificial intellectualism would be much better in a more fludlike dynamical lattus structure and body but that's not what the qauntom key #2 to the cosmos is. Its still a stochastic approach on the bottom end of order.
One good step specific like Richard finneman logic , we asked about steam engine textualized, then factory tested method, specific prediction industrial revolution = new market eqaul measure that how justfied freeing the servitude and created a specific profit to buy one family freedom, then one tribe, then entire nations.

In this factory cos/sin equations A of cutting speed vs B feed of cut in materials work perfectly but once you add A & b together it's no reason why it fails so we scrap parts & invoke hidden variables then fabricate profitable solutions without wasting the time of pushing the equation back up to educators who don't work but one repetition or so which is good enough to throw a sigma 6 on.
It works enough but you are witnessing the exact same behavior on classical scaled epochs orders of magnitude larger more ordered.
As a tool & die precision machinest useing the ultimate precision instrument ✝️ xyx man made time hierarchy knowledge of good evil equations

Your dealing in it everyday its no yoo hoo woo that's just making up excuses to try and preserve top down form & shape.. ignoring frame of reference space/motion Is 1 body cresting a 4 body problem not a 3 body solution triangulated measure that's both a blessing and a curse.

[spiridonnspiridonn]

Об интеллектуальных поисках квантовых компьютерщиков при помощи Сферы Блоха.
На мой арифметически простой взгляд, Сфера Блоха – это *не* физический объект. Можно сказать, что это условное вспомогательное мнемоническое представление о характере взаимодействия физических объектов. Природа не оперирует в соответствии с подобными трансцендентными представлениями. Поэтому на их основе невозможно строить логически правильные умозаключения о практической реализации этих представлений.
14.09.2024.

[FARDEEN.MUSTAFA]

It was a nice lecture about Quantum computing.
I think Mathematics without Quantum Physics is like empty box. Quantum Mechanics interact with Mathematics to make It up in a beautiful way.
It took Terence Howard 36 pages to prove that 1×1=2 either.
Maybe 1+1=2, and 1×1=2 simultaneously in 2 different states at same time which is a beautiful example of Quantum Mechanics in Mathematics.
In this case 1×1=2 or A×B=ab^2.
Great Albert Einstein also calculated 3 English Alphabets to build the most beautiful equation of all time E=mc^2, that Scientists used It to detect Neutrinos and to build Nuclear Fusion.
I love to learn Philosophy of Quantum Physics from Great Minds.

[UKDEEP]

so tired of these IAI advertorials for their subscription service.. there are plenty of other descriptions of this/these topic(s) online what's so special about yours that you feelk you have to basically cheat your audience? do you not understand that even 1 full video would be a much more effective marketing tool for the quality of your content than any number of videos that cutoff just as the content is about to discuss anything meaningful?

[LatentSpaceD]

Content behind PAYWALL - I'm sure Scott Aaronson does not appreciate your shady click bait tactics

[EA]

Who controls the quantum? Nature is controlled since its made by it. There has to be something who created it.

[-tarificpromo-]

It takes political correctness and irony to explain time travel💀

[PK-tcuq]

There is no Quantum Computing. There is only "what if..."