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One of Google The senior executives working on quantum computers said that technology is just five years to execute practical applications that cannot be calculated on modern computers.
Julian Kelly, Hardware Director of Google Quantum AI, told Deirdre Bosa of CNBC that a quantum computer can do an avant -garde physics and potentially generate new types of data.
“We believe we are about five years from a real and practical application that can only solve on a quantum computer,” Kelly said in an interview issued on Tuesday.
Quantum technology has enjoyed greater attention after Google announced an advance in error correction In December That the company said suggested a route to the quantum computers that work.
MicrosoftMeanwhile, he revealed a new quantum computing chip called Majorana in February. The company had to create a “State of completely new matter“For the chip to work, CEO Satya Nadella saying.
More advanced Google Quantum computer has 105 qubitsOr the basic component of a quantum computer, while experts say that 1 million or more of chips will be needed for useful applications.
Quantum computers have been a dream with 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 qubits are lit or deactivated depending on the probability.
“Quantum computers speak quantum mechanics: they can access the way the universe works at the most fundamental level,” Kelly said.
The first applications for technology will probably include the use of the system to simulate avant -garde physics, Kelly said. That includes “areas where you have some system that is beyond what a classic computer to do,” he added.
Quantum computers can also generate data used to train AI, although Kelly described this “speculative” use. He said that current artificial intelligence models may not be able to work on quantum computers.
“One of the potential applications in which it occurs to a quantum computer is to generate new and novel data,” Kelly said.
The quantum computing field has also benefited in recent months since the attention in artificial intelligence chips made by Nvidia As investors look for another type of next -generation processor that could cause a rise similar to the one that The graphics processing units did during the recent Investment wave of AI.
Nvidia does not manufacture quantum processors, but the company held a quantum day event last week where representatives of 12 leading quantum companies, Amazon And Microsoft talked about the potential of technology.
The chips manufacturer’s summit occurred after the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, in January, threw in doubt if the useful quantum computers would reach the market In the next 15 years. These comments caused the prices of the shares of several public quantum companies to fall.
Huang last week returned his comments from January, saying they were “wrong” But he still pointed out that he thought technology had a long way to go.
“Of course, quantum computing has the potential and all our hopes that it offers an extraordinary impact,” Huang said last week. “But technology is incredibly complicated.”
