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2/2: #AI/QUANTUM COMPUTING: RISK-ON, BRANDON WEICHERT, NATIONAL INTEREST

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

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2/2: #AI/QUANTUM COMPUTING: RISK-ON, BRANDON WEICHERT, NATIONAL INTEREST
DECEMBER 1956

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0:00.0

I'm John Datsworth.

0:05.2

Brandon Weikert, a good sport, and my dear friend of national interest,

0:09.3

who is my colleague in discussing the unknowable, which is quantum computing.

0:14.4

AI is easy.

0:15.5

We can tell anecdotes all day long.

0:17.2

We deal with it.

0:17.9

But quantum computing is not hands-on because it's still being worked on as a theory

0:24.4

and as a practice. But what can you do if you want to risk, if you want risk on? If you want to invest in

0:32.6

what you can imagine is the future. First thing, take all that money you've put in crypto. No, all right,

0:38.9

I'll leave it alone. But I'll just say that there are four recommendations in a professional

0:44.6

magazine that I think have merit. Again, our old friend Microsoft, are you surprised, Brandon?

0:52.4

No, I'm not, obviously, because it's so large.

0:55.0

It has a lot of, you know, capabilities.

0:57.8

But, you know, Microsoft has been at the forefront of this Majorana,

1:02.2

quantum computing chip controversy in which they've claimed they've created this new capability

1:08.2

with quantum computing.

1:09.4

And, of course, the academic world is, you know, fighting them saying.

1:12.6

Give the short, Brandon, Wyker, version of what quantum does.

1:17.6

Well, basically, it creates, it basically operates on qubits, which is in traditional computing, it's zero or one.

1:27.0

In quantum computing, it says zero and or one.

1:30.5

And where you have that happen is you can then have greater computational power that allows

1:37.7

for the resolution of high-end complex problem sets at a very quick time.

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