{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology","title":"Quantum Supremacy to Generative AI and Back with Scott Aaronson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4685,"description":"Description: Welcome to another episode of The New Quantum Era Podcast hosted by Kevin Rowney and Sebastian Hassinger. Today, they are joined by Scott Aaronson, who is a leading authority in the space of Quantum Computing, a fascinating person with a long list of relevant achievements. Scott is also the author of an outstanding blog called Shtetl-Optimize and a book named Quantum Computing Since Democritus.\n\nScott helped design Google Quantum Supremacy, but his work exceeds it; he is involved in Complexity Theory and Computer Science and is just extremely good at connecting, explaining, and digging deeper into concepts.\n\nKey Takeaways:\n[3:38] How did Scott get into quantum computing?\n[11:35] Scott talks about the moment when the question arose: Does nature work this way?\n[14:28] Scott shares when he realized he wanted to dig deeper into Quantum Computing.\n[15:56] Scott remembers when he proved the limitation of quantum algorithms for a variation of Grover's search problem.\n[18:43] Scott realized that his competitive advantage was the ability to explain how things work.\n[20:01] Scott explains the collision problem.\n[21:33] Scott defines the birthday paradox.\n[23:24] Scott discusses the dividing line between serious and non-serious quantum computing research.\n[24:11]  What's Scott’s relative level of faith and optimism that the areas of topological quantum computing and measurement-based quantum computation are going to produce?\n[28:33] Scott talks about what he thinks will be the source of the first practical quantum speed-up. \n[31:55] Scott didn’t imagine that being a complexity theorist would become exponential.\n[36:14] Is Scott optimistic about quantum walks? \n[40:11] Has Scott returned to his machine learning and AI roots but is now trying to explain the concepts? \n[42:03] Scott was asked: ‘What is it going to take to get you to stop wasting your life on quantum computing?’\n[44:50] Scott talks about the future need to prevent  AI misuse. and his role in Open...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0bJ0_ffy0r0O2l32QT5Tn9-3l9jtqpUcMVwNZnZXwRM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZmZl/YmRlZTAxNDY3MWJk/NmI2MGVkMGMxYmFh/MTM2Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}