Name: Google and NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Uploaded: 2014-03-23T09:48:06.000Z
Duration: 6 min 29 s
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JASON: Who was it that said if you think you understand

quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics?

ERIC: Blackholes, protecting the planet from asteroids--

MASOUD: Heisenberg uncertainty principle--

ERIC: Atoms, ion traps, nuclear magnetic resonance,

JASON: Past and future, classical physics, time

I can tell it's going to get very hot as I start speaking.

So tell me if I start to look really shiny.

JASON: Quantum physics puts everything into question.

ERIC: It defies every intuition you have about the

PETE: Quantum is a very strange regime of physics.

JASON: Things can exist in this state of superposition,

where they can be ghosting on each other-- where they could

SUZANNE: Two objects, if they're quantum mechanically

entangled, are still strongly related to each other, even

though they can be a vast distance apart.

HARTMUT: There's a notion of the multi-verse.

There's a whole family of Hartmuts in different states.

And they're going through different experiences and

MASOUD: The famous one is quantum tunneling.

GEORDIE: Tunneling is the slippage between universes.

ERIC: For a long time, people thought those effects only

ELEANOR: But really, it's the theory of our universe.

ERIC: So if you want to build a quantum computer, you want

to incorporate those new phenomenon into information

JASON: Maybe quantum computation is one of those

instruments that's going to allow us to see quantum

REPORTER: Google and NASA have teamed up to share one of the

world's first commercial quantum computers.

This machine, made by Canada's D-Wave, will be installed in a

JEREMY: This is the inside of one of our dilution

All of this infrastructure is to basically operate the chip

at a temperature that's two orders of magnitude colder

REPORTER: --but uses things called cubits.

As well as being either one or zero, a cubit can also be both

at the same time, therefore bringing about a quantum leap

JASON: Harnessing principles of reality that are, up until

very recently, completely not observable by us is just

fascinating in ways that I can't completely articulate.

GEORDIE; The overwhelmingly obvious killer app for quantum

HARTMUT: Actually, all Google server centers together will

not be capable of coming up with the best solution to

these optimization problems as they get larger.

You want to do a trip through South America and you want to

And then you ask, what is the cheapest ticket I can get to

And imagine I list all the different options I have from

different routes to travel to these cities.

ERIC: We currently, as a civilization, generate vast

But it's very difficult to generate useful insights,

HARTMUT: If you can solve optimization problems better,

you have an important resource at your hand.

SERGIO: I think, at least, it teaches us that we shouldn't

be naive about the world, that we shouldn't think about the

It forces us to consider more sophisticated notions of how

the reality around us is actually [? set. ?]

ELEANOR: I can't ask it how long I'll live or

Really, we don't know what the best questions

That's exactly what we're trying to understand now.

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