Tag: Quantum computing

What is it about Canadians and quantum computing?

A Canadian company called D:Wave has the best claim to be making and selling quantum computers.  Now a research team at Canada's Simon Fraser University has announced that it has held a quantum memory state stable at room temperature for 39 minutes.  This is 100 times longer than the previous record, and it has got the scientific community excited. In conventional computers, "bits" of data are stored as a string of 1s and 0s.  In a quantum system, quantum bits, or "qubits" are stored in a so-called "superposition state" in which they can be both 1s and 0 at the...

Google’s quantum computer

This is a post-script to my recent post on Eric Schmidt saying that the Turing Test would be passed within five years.  An interview with a pioneer in quantum computing suggests that Google just might be hoping to build a human-level AI in that sort of time frame. Google has recently bought a quantum computer from D-Wave, and during a long but fascinating webcast interview on Singularity 1 on 1, Geordie Rose, founder and Chief Technology Officer at D-Wave Computers, talked about how D-Wave is a key partner in Google's programme to develop machine intelligence.  Rose did not commit to any timelines, but when...