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Wed. 04/03 – Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Have we just had a major breakthrough in Quantum Computing? The earthquake in Taiwan might lead to some chip issues. We don’t quite know yet. Amazon is retooling it’s Just Walk Out technology. Venture capitalists are having a hard time raising money. And in the last segment of the show, I actually break some news about Coinbase. Links: Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing (TechCrunch) AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better (The Verge) Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI (Axios) TSMC Facilities to Resume Production Overnight After Quake (Bloomberg) Amazon’s Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech (The Information) Venture capital reckons with the end of ‘megafund’ era (Financial Times) YouTube Of Our Interview With David Marcus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Wednesday, April 3rd,

0:06.8

24. I'm Brian McCullough today. Have we just had a major breakthrough in

0:10.5

quantum computing? The earthquake in Taiwan might lead to some chip issues

0:15.2

we don't quite know yet. Amazon is retooling its just walk out technology, venture capitalists

0:20.0

are having a hard time raising money, and in the last segment of the show I actually

0:23.7

break some news about coin base here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:32.4

Potentially historical news that is not AI related, Microsoft and Quontinum this morning

0:39.2

detailed a breakthrough in Quantum error correction helping run more than 14,000 experiments with no errors.

0:46.5

An issue that has long been a problem for Quantum Computing, quoting Tech Crunch.

0:52.3

Using Quantum's Ion Trap Hardware and Microsoft's new

0:56.0

cubit virtualization system, the team was able to run more than 14,000

0:59.6

experiments without a single error. This new system also allowed the team to check the

1:03.8

logical cubits and correct any errors that encountered without destroying the

1:07.5

logical cubits. This the two companies say has now moved the state of the art of

1:11.8

quantum computing out of what has typically been dubbed

1:14.8

the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum NISQ computers. Noisy because even the smallest

1:21.5

changes in the environment can lead a quantum system to

1:24.1

essentially become random or decohere and intermediate scale because the

1:29.1

current generation of quantum computers is still limited to just over a thousand cubits at best.

1:34.4

A cubit is the fundamental unit of computing in quantum systems analogous to a bit in a classic

1:39.9

computer, but each cubit can be in multiple states at the same time and doesn't fall into a specific

1:45.4

position until measured, which underlies the potential of quantum to deliver a huge leap in computing

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