Reality Check - Is Quantum Computing the Future of Gaming?

Awesome as always, Cam. I was just thinking. If they actually make all this and we all will use it and nowdays programming will be a history, is that mean if you want to make like a game or something you will have to know something about quantum physics? How it works? You will have to be a some kind of scientist if you want to make something? Or it will be just adapted to some kind of different programming language?

This video looks better than normal, is it running at 60 FPS or something?

Great show as always Cam! Very interesting stuff. I am excited for the future of Computers and Gaming

Great episode!

I can never get Gamespot's video player to play videos correctly. They're so laggy and when I set the quality to low, they simply don't play at all.

Why didnt you guys talk about the superposition of electron spin instead of using color to explain it?

Cam, only you would tackle quantum super-position on a gaming site (that's meant as a compliment).

The take-away that I love about super-position is that the property you're interested in can have all possible states or "answers" simultaneously and only when you measure that property, does one of the states lock in.

Then if you have multiple qubits and link them such that they influence each other things get even more interesting.

Anyway, thanks for making episodes such as these. Another excellent presentation.

I want my VR headset first. Only then I'll consider this quantum chip you speak of.

Im a bit rusty in quantum mechanics but I think in order to achieve a quantum processor dont you got to have temperatures near absolute zero? These super quantum computer hold records as being the coldest objects in the known universe. Something Im not sure will be available soon at all

Quantum physics defies the laws of classical physics, or even what we'd call "common sense". If any macro-sized objects did what sub-atomic particles do, we'd be calling it magic, voodoo, or supernatural. Quantum physics has the potential to open up countless possibilities for the future.

Very interesting episode =)

I wonder if quantum computing is dangerous? like if you overclock it the wrong way would it go off like a mini atomic bomb?

The Master Race is evolving.... Soon, the console peasants will be cave men compared to us! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

you're good to us Cam !!!

hopefully the community is good to you too.

great episode, BTW

Gamespot has an abnormally high amount of theoretical physicists.

I love the way these gamespot videos are 60fps. It is instantly noticeable and very appreciated. :)

I wonder what kind of battlefield levilotion you could do

Qubits will provide real life Matrix that the nice Jewish man from Google Ray Kurzweil talked about. Your mind can live on forever. Or maybe like that movie Gamer.

i am no expert, but if quantum computers are gonna be the standard someday, does that mean all of our current application will be useless since you have to make a whole new programming language using the qubits system? i think the transition is gonna be quite harsh since we must build everything back from scratch.

At first, instead of "qubit", I heard Q*bert.

In our age of rebooted brands, I imagine there's room for a Quantum Bert hero, somewhere...

PlayStation 9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdh4TqWFfX4)

Will have Quantum power. :-p

Sounds nice but that is a ways off, what about now the immediate future like within 5-10 years? I heard that IBM have come up with this wicked Synapse computing that runs super low power and gives super computer type of number crunching power using power from a hearing aid battery. DARPA have given $54 million to help further research and IBM is on it's second generation of this chip, should be landing in commercial space in 2 to 3 years. Think about it this chip can very well change the way PC's number crunch and the power savings are massive.

Here is an excerpt:

"Modeled after the human brain, the TrueNorth chip incorporates 5.4 billion transistors, the most IBM has ever put on a chip. It also features 1 million programmable neurons and 256 million programmable synapses. That's far lower than the 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion to 150 trillion synapses in the human brain -- but still enough, Modha said, to run devices that could, for example, proactively issue tsunami alerts, do oil-spill monitoring, or enforce shipping lane rules. And all that happens while consuming just 70 milliwatts of power, about the same as a hearing aid."

Now this is something I am interested in although it kind of brings that alarming Skynet terminator idea to mind. Putting the doomsday scenario or self-aware AI quenching mankind, this does make me extremely excited to see the type of applications in auto-pilot for cars, smartwatches that can keep tabs on your heart rate and give you a route based on your current state. Excited and it's not even quantum computing.

Quantum Computing is so far off its not even funny.