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One of the one Google’s The best executives working on quantum computers have said that he believes that technology is only five years away from starting practical applications that cannot be calculated on modern computers.
Julian Kelly, director of the Google Quantum AI hardware, told CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa that quantum computer can do top physics and potentially generate new types of data.
“We think we are about five years from the right breakthrough, a type of practical application that you can only solve on a quantum computer,” Kelly said in an interview on Tuesday.
Quantum technology enjoyed increased attention after Google announced a breakthrough in errors correction in December That the company said it had suggested the road to a working quantum computer.
MicrosoftIn the meantime, he has discovered a new quantum computer chip called Mayara in February. The company had to create “brand new state of matter“To find the chip, the executive director Satya Nadella said.
Google’s most advanced The quantum computer has 105 quitOr the basic building block of quantum computer, while experts say that useful applications will require a million or more Qubita.
Quantum computers have been a dream of physicists and scientists since the 1980s. While traditional computers are based on central processors or graphic processors with bits that are 0 or 1, quantum quints are switched on or excluded based on probability.
“Quantum computers speak quantum mechanics – they can approach the way the universe works at the most basic level,” Kelly said.
The first technology apps are likely to include the use of a top physics simulation system, Kelly said. These include “areas where you have a system that is somehow out of reach of what a classic computer to do,” he added.
Quantum computers can also be able to generate data used to train AI, although Kelly called this use “speculative”. He said that current artificial intelligence models basically would not be able to work on quantum computers.
“One of the potential applications you can remember for the quantum computer is generating new and new data,” Kelly said.
The Quantum Computing Field has also benefited in recent months from attention to artificial intelligence chips Nvidia While investors are looking for another type of new generation processor that could stimulate a similar flourish as a Graphics processing units have been made during a recent AI investment wave.
Nvidia does not make quantum processors, but the company held the Quantum Day event last week, where representatives of 12 leading quantum companies are, Amazon And Microsoft talked about the potential of technology.
The manufacturer of chips manufacturers followed after Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO doubted whether the useful quantum computer would hit the market in January In the next 15 years. These comments caused a drop in shares of several public quantum companies.
Huang went back in January comments last week, saying that “they are not right”, But he still hinted that he thought the technology had a long way.
“Of course, Quantum Computing has the potential and all our hopes will give an extraordinary impact,” Huang said last week. “But technology is crazy complicated.”
