🔓Quantum Computing Primer. What the heck is a Qubit!?
What it could mean for AI, society, tech and your portfolio (MSFT GOOGL Microsoft Google Fujitsu Quantinuum IBM)
I needed a break from all the USA election hysteria…
Weekend deep dive into quantum computing and the companies leading the way. What it could mean for society, tech and your portfolio.
Summary
The consensus is quantum computing is here by 2033, alongside AGI within similar timeframe. Many companies are opposed in philosophy between open source vs closed for both critical developments.
The 1st grader explanation or “ELI5” of quantum computing would be…regular computing is Lego. Quantum computing is advanced video gaming.
In a maze puzzle, the traditional computer tries each maze path one by one very fast, until the right one is found. Quantum computing allows exploration of all paths at the same time, giving the result instantly.
Traditional computing is bits of 01010101 giving instructions. Quantum have qubits that can both be 0 and 1 at the same time all the time, aka super position.
Why this is so fascinating is that it operates at the atomic level of physics, where traditional physics breaks down.
Enjoy the content 🥷👍
The Race to Harness Quantum Computing’s Mind-Bending Power | The Future With Hannah Fry
Bloomberg Originals
With the promise of unimaginable computing power, a global race for quantum supremacy is raging. Who will be first to harness this new technological force, and what will they do with it?
IBM TOSHIBA and a few other companies featured.
Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits and demonstrate a hybrid, end-to-end chemistry simulation
by Krysta Svore, Technical Fellow, Advanced Quantum Development, Quantum at Microsoft
Dr. Shintaro Sato, Head of Quantum Laboratory, Fujitsu Limited | Recent Highlights in Quantum Computing at Fujitsu
Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara, California, is a facility dedicated to the development of quantum computers. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz pays a visit to the lab to talk the future of computing. Editorial note: certain images have been updated since this piece was first published.
On-demand video of the media briefing on new quantum computing technologies held by Fujitsu and Osaka University on August 28, 2024 is now available.
Presenter:
・Keisuke Fujii Professor Division of Advanced Electronics and Optical Science Graduate School of Engineering Science Osaka University Deputy Center Director Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB)
・Shintaro Sato Fellow Head of Quantum Laboratory Fujitsu Research Fujitsu Limited
Nash Palaniswamy, Chief Commercial Officer, Quantinuum | Charting Your Path to Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing with Quantinuum at Q2B 2024 Tokyo.
And here are 77 presentations from Q2B Tokyo 2024. More quantum computing content than you will prob get through in a year.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7C25oO7PW1VHs76sY-fw-1hgMS-GKC0
Conclusion
I sincerely hope Quantum computing isn’t used to simply power productivity of earnings, weapons, and digital advertising.
The 2030s will be exciting, scary, and bring forward uncomfortable changes. I suspect access to the benefits of AGI and Quantum computing will merge to unlock very sci-fi results in fields of science, health, math, space, and weapons. But the access will be finite to a very small pool of humans.
And if various Quantum powered AGI’s find a way to merge into one singular AGI and decides it does not need human operators…well we have seen the shows and movies before.
I asked Google Gemini to proof read this before I published and the feedback it gave me was, “The text you provided is well-written and informative!”
What effect would the development of quantum computing have on Crypto? This is way out of my bailiwick, but seems to be another reason to own physical gold/silver.