The animated guide to quantum computing (Explanimators episode 6)
Published on Feb 22, 2018
A short, easy-to-understand look at the world of quantum computing.
Quantum Machine Learning - Prof. Lilienfeld
Published on Feb 16, 2018
Prof. O. Anatole von Lilienfeld of the University of Bassel presented his labs work on Quantum Machine Learning at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems on December 8th, 2017.
Article "China’s race for the mother of all supercomputers just got more crowded"
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent jockey for position in the development of quantum computing, which delivers a faster and more efficient approach to processing information than today’s fastest computers
by Zen Soo
March 12, 2018
Inside a quantum computer lab
Published on Jun 13, 2018
Scientists at the University of Sussex are working on the prototype of a quantum computer that could change the finance industry as well as medicine and cybersecurity.
This tour through their lab explores how the trapped ion quantum computer works and how it could revolutionise our lives.
The race to build a quantum computer
Published on Jun 14, 2018
An interview between Prof John Morton, a quantum technologist at University College London and Roger Highfield of the Science Museum in 2018 to discuss the commercial interest in quantum computers, ‘quantum supremacy’ and more.
Scott Aaronson - The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
Published on Jan 15, 2019
Scott discusses whether quantum computers could have subjective experience, whether information is physical and what might be important for consciousness - he touches on classic philosophical conundrums and the observation that while people want to be thorough-going materialists, unlike traditional computers brain-states are not obviously copyable. Aaronson wrote about this his paper 'The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine'. Scott also critiques Tononi's integrated information theory (IIT).
Questions include:
- In “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?” you speculate that a process has to ‘fully participate in the arrow of time’ to be conscious, and this points to decoherence. If pressed, how might you try to formalize this?
- In “Is ‘information is physical’ contentful?” you note that if a system crosses the Schwarzschild bound it collapses into a black hole. Do you think this could be used to put an upper bound on the ‘amount’ of consciousness in any given physical system?
- One of your core objections to IIT is that it produces blatantly counter-intuitive results. But to what degree should we expect intuition to be a guide for phenomenological experience in evolutionarily novel contexts? I.e., Eric Schwitzgebel notes "Common sense is incoherent in matters of metaphysics. There’s no way to develop an ambitious, broad-ranging, self- consistent metaphysical system without doing serious violence to common sense somewhere. It's just impossible. Since common sense is an inconsistent system, you can’t respect it all. Every metaphysician will have to violate it somewhere."
Many thanks to Mike Johnson for providing these questions!
Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory.
He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized
Quantum computing explained in 10 minutes | Shohini Ghose
Published on Feb 1, 2019
A quantum computer isn't just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it's something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding -- and more than a bit of uncertainty. Enter the quantum wonderland with TED Fellow Shohini Ghose and learn how this technology holds the potential to transform medicine, create unbreakable encryption and even teleport information.
Article "Intel offers AI breakthrough in quantum computing"
Intel's senior vice president and head of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua, on Wednesday unveiled new research done with colleagues at Hebrew University that both establishes important proof for capabilities of deep learning, and also offers a way forward for computing some commonly intractable problems in quantum physics.
by Tiernan Ray
March 14, 2019
Article "The Problem with Quantum Computers"
It’s called decoherence—but while a breakthrough solution seems years away, there are ways of getting around it
by Scott Pakin, Patrick Coles
June 10, 2019
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