1. What Quantum Computing Isn’t
ZOOM THRU ZOOM THRU Thanks so much for inviting me! When I typed “quantum computer” into Google Image Search, that’s the first picture that came up. That’s apparently what they look like. (I should warn you that I’m a theorist rather than an engineer.)
Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)
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August 27, 2017

2. It Isn’t Just Today’s Computers But Smaller or Faster
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics. n

3. It Isn’t A Magic Bullet That Solves All Problems InstantlyNP
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The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.

4. It Isn’t A Simple Matter of Trying All Possible Answers In Parallel
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.

5. But Nor Is It A Matter of Trying One Thing or the Other, and You Simply Don’t Know Which One Until You Measure
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.
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6. In Fact, Quantum Superposition Isn’t Something You Can Easily Round Down to Any Concept That Doesn’t Involve Vectors of Complex Numbers
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.

7. It Isn’t A Buzzword to Be Added Like Seasoning to Any Silicon Valley Startup Idea
QUANTUM DEEP LEARNING
QUANTUM FINANCE
QUANTUM BITCOIN
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.
QUANTUM COGNITION
QUANTUM TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION

8. But Nor Is It Science Fiction
The starting point for this talk is, there are certain technologies we never see that would be REALLY cool if we had them. The first is warp drive. Where is it? The second is perpetual-motion machines – the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems. The third is what I like to call the Ubercomputer. This is a machine where you feed it any well-posed mathematical question and it instantly tells you the answer. Currently, even with the fastest computers today, if you ask them to prove a hard theorem, they could do it eventually, but it might take longer than the age of the universe. That’s why there are still human mathematicians.
In this talk, I want to convince you that the impossibility of ubercomputers is also something physicists should think about, and also something that may have implications for physics.

9. EMBRACE THE FUTURE!
The first step, in my view: Accurately learn and report what’s already known in the present