John Preskill – Part 1 – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman (#111)

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Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Part 1 of 2 Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics. Join my mailing list to get slides from this conversation: briankeating.com. We went deep…discussing Artificial Intelligence, the simulation hypothesis, lessons from Richard Feynman and more! You don’t want to miss his answers to my patented Thrilling Three final questions! John Preskill is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. He is one of the most prolific and influential scientists of our time. Preskill is a leading scientist in the field of quantum information science and quantum computation, and he is known for coining the term “quantum supremacy.” Preskill studied magnetic monopoles in Grand Unified Theories. This work pointed out serious flaws in the then-current cosmological models, a problem which was later addressed by Alan Guth and others by proposing the idea of cosmic inflation. He’s the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. He is known for coining the term “Quantum Supremacy” in a 2012 paper. Preskill has achieved some notoriety in the popular press as a party to a number of bets involving fellow theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne. Preskill was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. Watch my most popular videos: Jim Simons, the World’s Smartest Billionaire Bill Perkins: DIE WITH ZERO: Patrick Bet-David YOUR NEXT FIVE MOVES Sheldon Glashow Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek Jill Tarter Eric Weinstein Sir Roger Penrose Juan Maldacena’s First Podcast Interview Sara Seager Venus Life Noam Chomsky Sabine Hossenfelder Sarah Scoles Stephen Wolfram ‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome to this episode of the Into the Impossible
0:04.4	podcast I'm your fearful host Dr Brian Keating of the University of California
0:10.1	San Diego and I am enjoying these pandemic podcasts tremendously and never more so
0:16.9	then when I get to interview one of my friends one of my heroes one of my
0:20.8	inspirations and mentors such as today's podcast you'll hear really an
0:24.7	exclusive interview with none other than John Preskill who is the Richard
0:29.1	Feynman professor of physics at Caltech. Today you're going to learn about Richard Feynman. You're going to learn
0:34.4	how he inspired a nine-year-old John Preskill, who later took the name of the very person who
0:40.0	inspired him, namely Richard Feynman. You're going to to learn about Feinman's blunders, if there were any.
0:45.2	You're going to learn about quantum computing, the simulation hypothesis, artificial
0:49.2	intelligence, and even impact on things like cryptography, blockchain, etc.
0:54.9	This is really to my knowledge the first podcast of this type not purely about scientific
1:00.5	contributions made by John and his group.
1:03.4	John's been an inspiration to me since I met him in the year 2000 when I was up at that little
1:09.0	technical college up in Pasadena known as Caltech and ever since he's been so generous and
1:16.4	gracious with his time and his energy he's working on a lot of things I want you
1:21.2	to stay in touch with me so that you can get these resources like get notified when his book on quantum
1:26.4	computing comes out. This is a book you will not want to miss. He is one of the founders of this field.
1:31.2	He'll talk about how Finman influenced him as well as answering
1:36.0	the thrilling three questions that we always talk about on the Into the Impossible podcast,
1:42.0	relating to his ethical will, his monolithic wisdom
1:46.9	that he would leave on a monolith, and also his advice to his younger self.
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