Quantum computing: Facts, fiction and the future

Dialogues on Technology and Society

Quantum computing is a hot field right now—so hot that it’s hard to discern what’s real and what’s exaggerated. What’s feasible for quantum computers, and what’s not? The Google Quantum AI team will take you on a journey to the cutting edge and help you understand the current state of the art, separate fact from fiction, and prepare for what’s on the horizon.

Speakers: Charina Chou, Director and COO, Quantum AI, Google
Erik Lucero, Lead Quantum Engineering, Google

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Event: Google I/O 2024

[Cifero-dm]

Thank you Charina and Erik for this very interesting explanation and for your ability to explain where you stand. Keep up the good work!

[kurtisbunker]

I really enjoyed this one. Going to watch it with the older kids later on.

[mmdurfee]

The quantum interactions within the processor, what dataset is used for the computation, materials, and cooling are critical to the "real world" applications of the system. But what is the interface? Is it some command prompt in a stand alone system? Will the public have access? What would that look like?

[navya-sv]

Quantum computing has the potential to change industries such as artificial intelligence and machine learning by allowing for faster and more effective algorithms.

[LeoAIHub]

As an independent researcher and enthusiast of quantum computing, it’s time to start to look at everything around us and our technology as quantum and quantum data. I dream with the day I will be training a neural network with quantum data converted from classical data. We could stop AI hallucinations and control biases. Good job Google 🎉❤

[Realreal]

Could we get chapters on this video please?

[CruickedReality]

Great presentation. Bet you will need a LOT of refrigeration to keep those

[steveknick]

Hey it’s Charina from the 60 minutes piece, cool! I’m investing in QC for the next 20 years or so, so I’m interested.

[Preppy_Frog]

This is about early quantum computing in the 2020s and 2030s. It will be significantly more advanced in the 2050s/2080s and into the next century. Classical computing will exist only as a means of human interaction (digital output is easy to convert to human analog input) but everything at the computational level will be quantum based. Video encoding/decoding, 3D rendering, and gaming will all be possible with QCs in the second half of the century, and especially next century. It will be cloud based however, probably subscription based, and heavily monitored, as well as all interactions training AI models, which will likely achieve singularity much sooner.

[vtrandal]

@4:38 Charina, you say it’s an open question if quantum computers can provide a speedup for classical data like images, etc. I would like to read about that if you have any references to papers about it. So far all I have found is Chris Lomont’s 2003 paper proving quantum convolution is impossible. Maybe hybrid approaches (classical+quantum) can give super-polynomial speedup.

[amitasahasrabudhe]

The audience is such a buzzkill. It's demotivating for speakers, too. Great presentation, team!

[krfloll]

The problem with quantum computing is that you need to be a quantum physicist to make meaningful contributions to the software space. I dont a single senior software engineer who is also a quantum physicist. Imbsure they exist but they are probably at google or ibm

[andreasfehlau]

Quantum error correction cannot be solved if you don't implement the fifth Dimension. And I have noticed certain hints about this by the Chinese, comparable to the implosion of the atomic bomb. By the way, quantum mechanics explains through the fifth dimension what holds the largest and smallest forces together in there cosmological Infinity. Choose your future.

[julioconradomarinardila]

Una gran herramienta de trabajo digital y con mucha capacidad del sistema

[JRMI]

Time Crystal we’re super cool.

Quantum Computer + Q* + Veo 3 = ?

[goldnutter]

2:26 🥰

The only problem is that nature makes the difficulty asymmetrical.. perhaps impossible for true ECC

[goldnutter]

10:10 so the universe supports this because it's actually efficient enough ? the analogy would be that for computational primitives the universe is the conductor.. so the many body system is less complex. From our point of view (ZK output?) it is impossibly more complex the larger the system.

Outstanding ! go Google🤩

[amiprasis]

Are there real human beings in the audience? Or mannequins? Because humans would not have sat that dead in such an event!

[ANu-pxds]

Charina story of her husband is a fascinating example. Quantum computing would point fingers to established accepted practices. By overlaying data instantaneously. Combined with AI and blockchain would be ???

[thishandleistacken]

These talks are good but I highly recommend changing the tone to one that is more academic and less corporate. I think it's also a PR mistake to ignore the obvious military application. By all means focus on defense applications rather than offense... but anyone well read on these subjects knows the main reason these things are being funded. It's nothing to be ashamed of... although it's a scary future it's the same as nuclear energy in terms of the inevitability of benign applications and more insidious ones. If a foreign power used quantum computers to crack all Western secure channels and could organize a hack to take down infrastructure before a larger attack I for one like to know we have people working on technology like this which can protect us