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Geordie Rose | Quantum Computing: Artificial Intelligence Is Here

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Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can `exploit parallel universes’ to solve problems that we have no other means of confirming. Simply put, quantum computers can think exponentially faster and simultaneously such that as they mature they will out pace us. Listen to his talk now!

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what I'm telling you is absolutely correct and in line with the way that these things actually work,", 'start': 913.305, 'duration': 6.165}], 'summary': 'Parallel worlds overlap, offering resources for impact in our world.', 'duration': 32.288, 'max_score': 887.182, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/PqN_2jDVbOU/pics/PqN_2jDVbOU887182.jpg'}, {'end': 954.205, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 926.163, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 932.346, 'text': 'The doubling of the number of these qubits on the chip has happened once a year for the past nine years.', 'start': 926.163, 'duration': 6.183}, {'end': 938.45, 'text': 'So for the last nine years, every year the number of these qubit devices has doubled and it will continue to do so.', 'start': 933.167, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 945.574, 'text': 'As a point of reference in terms of how fast these things are.', 'start': 941.411, 'duration': 4.163}, {'end': 954.205, 'text': 'in one generation of chip, The one from the system that was installed at USC to the one that Google and NASA have now,', 'start': 945.574, 'duration': 8.631}], 'summary': 'Number of qubit devices on the chip has doubled annually for 9 years.', 'duration': 28.042, 'max_score': 926.163, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/PqN_2jDVbOU/pics/PqN_2jDVbOU926163.jpg'}, {'end': 1112.109, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1082.873, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1085.134, 'text': "And by the way, they're going to use one of our machines to help do this.", 'start': 1082.873, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 1086.755, 'text': "So that's my first prediction.", 'start': 1085.814, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 1095.162, 'text': 'My second prediction is that this business of parallel universes is going to turn out to be very important.', 'start': 1088.436, 'duration': 6.726}, {'end': 1099.244, 'text': "This picture that I've got under here is what's called a gravitational lens.", 'start': 1095.842, 'duration': 3.402}, {'end': 1106.127, 'text': 'When Einstein proposed his general theory of relativity, it came with a bunch of experiments that you could use to test it.', 'start': 1099.864, 'duration': 6.263}, {'end': 1112.109, 'text': 'And one of them was that if there was a point of light very far away in a galaxy in the middle,', 'start': 1106.587, 'duration': 5.522}], 'summary': "Prediction: use of machines in experiments. importance of parallel universes. einstein's theory tests.", 'duration': 29.236, 'max_score': 1082.873, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/PqN_2jDVbOU/pics/PqN_2jDVbOU1082873.jpg'}, {'end': 1172.823, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1159.516, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1160.916, 'text': 'I mean everything.', 'start': 1159.516, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 1163.358, 'text': "And I think that we're very close.", 'start': 1161.957, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 1171.662, 'text': 'And my prediction is that within 15 years, we will 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