>> THANKS FOR BRINGING IT TO OUR ATTENTION.
ATTENTION. >>> GOOGLED ANNOUNCEDTHY
QUANTUM.
QUANTUM. THEY CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT
NORMAL COMPUTERS FIND
IMPOSSIBLE.
IMPOSSIBLE. JACOB WARD IS IN SAN FRANCISCO
WITH MORE ON GOOGLE’S BIG
ANNOUNCEMENT.
ANNOUNCEMENT. >> ALISON, PRETTY MUCH
EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES INVOLVES
A SORT OF RUDIMENTARY SORT OF
COMPUTING.
COMPUTING. I’M TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING.
I’M TALKING ABOUT YOUR BLENDER,
YOUR PHONE, THINGS LIKE MY IMAGE
BEING CARRIED ACROSS WHATEVER
DEVICE IT’S BEING WATCHED ON.
ALL OF THIS HAPPENS USING BITS,
ONES AND ZEROS IN SEQUENCE.
THAT’S HOW ALL MODERN COMPUTING
RECORDS AND TRANSMITS
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. AND SO THE AMAZING PART OF
QUANTUM COMPUTING IS IT CAN DO
THINGS NO CURRENT COMPUTER CAN
DO.
DO. GOOGLE IN ITS ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT
THIS ESTIMATES IT TOOK ABOUT 200
SECONDS FOR ITS QUANTUM COMPUTER
TO DO A CALCULATION THAT WOULD
HAVE TAKEN A NORMAL SUPER
COMPUTER, EVEN THE HIGHEST THING
WE HAVE TODAY, ABOUT 10,000
YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH.
SO, WE’VE TAKEN 10,000 YEARS.
THEY SAY IT ONLY TOOK 200
SECONDS.
SECONDS. THAT’S AN INCREDIBLE
BREAKTHROUGH.
BREAKTHROUGH. WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT THIS?
BEFORE YOU SAY, HEY, NERD, WHAT
DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MY
LIFE?
LIFE? HERE’S THE AMAZING THING ABOUT
IT.
IT. BASICALLY, NOT ONLY WOULD YOUR
PHONE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF
DATA AND ALL OF THIS STUFF BE
TRANSFORMED BY THIS, BUT ALL
SORTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
THINGS ARE ARE DEPENDENT ON THE
ABILITY TO HAVE ONES AND
DISPLEASURES.
DISPLEASURES. BASICALLY THE PASSWORDS WE USE
FOR ALL ENCRYPTION IS BASED ON
THE IDEA IT WOULD TAKE FAR TOO
LONG, LET’S SAY 10,000 YEARS FOR
A REGULAR COMPUTER TO OVERWHELM
YOUR PASSWORD, TO FIGURE IT ALL
OUT.
OUT. IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE
BECAUSE WITH QUANTUM COMPUTING,
IN THEORY, YOU COULD QUICKLY
GUESS AND BREAK DOWN A PASSWORD
OR ANY OTHER ENCRYPTION SCHEME
JUST LIKE THAT.
IN THIS CASE, THIS KIND OF
COLLAPSING OF A 10,000-YEAR
PROJECT TO 200 SECONDS IS THE
SAME THING IT COULD DO WITH A
PASSWORD.
PASSWORD. IT’S ALL FAR OFF IN THE DISTANCE
BUT AN AMAZING THING.
OUR WHOLE LIVES COULD BE
REVOLUTIONIZED BY THIS.
WE’RE WANT TALKING ABOUT RANDOM
MATH EXPERIMENT.
MATH EXPERIMENT. WE’RE TALKING NEW MEDICINES, NEW
MATERIALS, ARTIFICIAL
MATERIALS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH DEPENDS ON
THIS LIMITED LANGUAGE OF
COMPUTING WE USE.
SO, THE IDEA HERE IS THAT IF
THEY REALLY BEGIN TO GO FORWARD
FROM THIS, THIS IS JUST A FIRST
STEP, BUT IF THEY BEGIN TO
REALLY DEPLOY QUANTUM COMPUTING
IN THE WAY THEY IMAGINE,
SUDDENLY WE’LL HAVE ALL KINDS OF
INCREDIBLE BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE
MATERIALS WE MAKE AND THE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WE BUILD
AND EVERYTHING ELSE AS WE GO
FORWARD.
FORWARD. NOW, ONE LAST THOUGHT HERE
BEFORE I GO, BECAUSE I THINK
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING FOR
THOSE OF US WATCHING SORT OF BIG
TECH AND HOW HUGE THESE
COMPANIES HAVE BECOME AND HOW
POWERFUL THEY ARE.
IT’S NOTABLE THIS BREAKTHROUGH,
A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY,
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAID
IT’S GOING TO COMMIT ABOUT $1.5
BILLION TO QUANTUM COMPUTING,
WHILE CHINA IS THOUGHING
HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS AT THIS
KIND OF PROJECT.
IT’S NOT HAPPENING AT THE
UNIVERSITY OR GHOVT LAB LEVEL.
IT’S HAPPENING INSIDE A
CORPORATION.
CORPORATION. IN THIS CASE, INSIDE GOOGLE.
THE OTHER BIG PLAYERS ARE
MICROSOFT, IBM.
MICROSOFT, IBM. IT’S A MARK OF OUR AGE THAT THIS
TYPE OF KITTYHAWK SORT OF
BREAKTHROUGH IS NOT TAKING PLACE
AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL OR
ACADEMIA.
ACADEMIA. GOOGLE BOUGHT THE LAB, ABSORBED
A LAB FROM UCSB, UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA AND
MAINTAINS ITS PRESENCE.
THAT’S A FUNNY INDICATION OF THE
MOMENT WE’RE IN.
PUTTING ALL OF THAT ASIDE, THE
BREAKTHROUGH, THE FUNDAMENTAL
QUANTUM COMPUTING POTENTIAL AND