Dr. Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally. For the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years, he is on leave to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. In this interview, Dr. Aaronson discussed a quantum computer, its comparison to classical computers, and its use cases. He also shared his take on the potential role of quantum computers in Artificial Intelligence.
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TIMESTAMPS
01:45 Misconceptions about Quantum computing
03:00 Quantum Computer vs Classical Computer
08:30 The Schrodinger equation
18:00 What is Quantum Computer good for?
28:45 The look of Quantum computers
43:40 Quantum Error Correction
46:50 Quantum computing in AI
55:25 Would you choose Machin Learning or Quantum Computer for a major
57:50 Take on Michio Kaku’s book Quantum Supremacy….(oh, well)
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