Google Quantum Exec says Tech “5 years off a real breakthrough”

One out Google’s The best executives working on quantum computers said they believe that technology is only five years old from practical applications that cannot be calculated on modern computers.

Julian Kelly, the Google Quantum AI Equipment Director, told Deirdre Bosa CNBC that a quantum computer can make advanced physics and potentially create new types of data.

“We believe that we have about five years from a real breakthrough, practical application that you can only solve on a quantum computer,” Kelly said in an interview on Tuesday.

Quantum Technology enjoys increasing attention after Google has announced a breakthrough in error correction In December According to the company, she offered the way to the work of quantum computers.

MicrosoftMeanwhile, in February, he discovered a new quantum computational chip called Majorana. The company had to create “a brand new state of matter‘To force a chip to work, CEO Satya Nadel said.

The most advanced Google Quantum Computer has 105 elbowsEither the main building block of the quantum computer, while experts note that it will take 1 million or more elbows for useful applications.

Quantum computers have been a dream of physicists and scientists since the 1980s. While traditional computers are based on central processors or graphic processors with bits that make up either 0 or 1, quantum cubes are excluded or excluded on the basis of probability.

“Quantum Computers talk about quantum mechanics – they can access how the universe works at the most fundamental level,” Kelly said.

The first applications for this technology will probably include the use of advanced physics modeling, Kelly said. These include “areas where you have some system that is somehow unavailable from what the classic computer is,” he added.

Quantum Computers may also be able to create data used to teach II, although Kelly named this use “speculative”. He said that modern artificial intelligence models will not be able to work on quantum computers in principle.

“One of the potential applications you can come up with for a quantum computer is the creation of new and new data,” Kelly said.

In recent months, the quantum computational field also took advantage of attention Nvidia As the investors are looking for another kind of processor next generation that can cause a similar boom like Graphic processing units were made during a recent wave of AI investment.

Nvidia does not make quantum processors, but last week the company held a Quantum Day event where representatives of 12 leading quantum companies, Amazon And Microsoft told about the potential of technology.

Summit Chipmaker took place after Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO raised doubts about whether they will receive useful quantum computers on the market In the next 15 years. These comments have led to a fall in the prices of several state -owned companies.

Juan last week went back to January comments, saying they were “wrong”, But he still signaled that he believed that the technology had a long way.

“Of course, quantum calculations have the potential and all our hopes that it has an extraordinary influence,” Juan said last week. “But technology is insanely complicated.”