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“And it's very ambitious, because at this point, it's not even clear they have a single qubit, but if that approach is successful, and we're, it's making progress, so I think we will see a validated Qubit of this type soon, maybe next year.”

“The most advanced are superconducting circuits and trapped ions, which is why I mentioned those first, and I think that will remain true, you know, over the next five to 10 years.”

“The Ones which will affect everyday life, I think, are better methods for understanding and inventing new materials, new chemical compounds. Things like that can be really important. You know, if you find a better way of capturing carbon by designing a better …”

“We think in a couple of years we'll have devices with about 50 qubits to a hundred, and we'll be able to control them pretty well, and that's an interesting range, because even though it's only 50 to a hundred qubits, doesn't sound like that big a deal, but th…”

“I don't think, though I could be wrong, that we're likely to have quantum computers that can break those public key cryptosystems in 10 years. But in 50 years? Seems not unlikely.”

“And in particular, what we're going to be doing with quantum computers and, you know, the other quantum technologies that are Becoming increasingly sophisticated in the next couple of decades is we'll be able to control very well, highly entangled, complex qua…”

“Maybe some brilliant graduate student is going to drop a paper on the archive tomorrow which will say, here I solve quantum chemistry and I can do it on a digital computer. But we don't think that's very likely because we've been working pretty hard on these p…”

“Well, I think in the near term, we're going to be trying out, and probably we have the best hopes for kind of hybrid classical quantum methods with some kind of classical feedback.”

“In the long term those electron spins could catapult ahead of these other things. That's something that you can naturally do in silicon, and you know, it's potentially easy to integrate, integrate with silicon technology.”

“And again, using this technology of Nuclear spins, which I mentioned you can do it at room temperature, potentially. You can make a pretty good sensor, and it can potentially achieve higher sensitivity and spatial resolution. You look, look at things on shorte…”

“What I wouldn't be surprised by is that if you go out a few decades, kids who are 10 years old are gonna be playing quantum games.”

“That's the place with the Silicon Valley is likely to be Quantum Valley the way things are right now.”

“But at first that was just kind of a theorist fantasy. It was a little too far ahead of The technology, but, you know, 20 years later, the technology is catching up, so now this idea of quantum error correction has become something you can do in the lab.”

“And in practice, it's not that big a deal. What it means is that, you know, if you have the same processing speed, you can handle about you know, twice as many cities before the problem becomes too hard to solve as you could if you were using a classical proce…”

“We have algorithms that have been proposed, but, which we can't really run currently, because our quantum computers aren't big enough, on the scale that's needed to solve problems really, people really care about.”

“More or less with the technology we have now, you can have a gate error rate of a few parts in a thousand, you know.”

“And for the superconducting circuits, those coherence times have increased about a factor of 10 every three years, going back 15 years or so.”

“They have the advantage of being faster than the time to take the cycle time, the time to do a gate is faster than with the trapped ions.”

“RSA, which is one of the ones that's widely used, as typically practiced today, the, to break it, you'd have to do something like factor a number, which is Over 2000 bits long to 20 48. And that's, you know, that's too hard to do now. But that's what quantum c…”

“But nowadays, you know, you can send quantum information through an optical fiber over tens of kilometers with you know, a low enough error rate, so it's useful for communication.”

“Because at least with, you know, our current photonics technology, there's no way I can send a single photon from here to China without there being a very high probability that it gets lost in the fiber somewhere.”

“A lot of classical algorithms that, that people use on today's computers were discovered, or that they were powerful, was discovered by experimenting, you know, by trying it.”