IBM’s Quantum Crash Course: Why Today’s Computers Fail │ Short Thoughts #3

Quantum computers are noisy and unstable. Even simple operations are error-prone, around 1 in every 1,000 goes wrong.

How do we get from here to quantum advantage, the computing promised land when quantum systems outperform classical machines at every task, solve the climate crisis, invent new materials, cure disease and send humanity skipping into the future with hope, optimism and AI that behaves itself?

In this short episode, Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, explains why today’s quantum computers make mistakes, what error correction really means, and how IBM’s roadmap could deliver fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029. 

He also shares why chemistry and materials science may be the first fields transformed by quantum breakthroughs.

Please enjoy the show. And share with your most curious friend.

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