Andy Halliday

Sorry.

We don't know what we're talking about here.

My simple point is, who's going to use this?

Who's going to negotiate to get Michael Caine's voice?

It's going to be an advertiser or whatever, so maybe it's relevant.

I don't know how valuable that is in the world when that's going to be superseded by...

digital actors in the very near term?

Yeah.

Okay, well, let's drop that one now.

I have one other thing that I've been holding on to for a number of days here that I want to pass on to everyone, which is in the world of quantum computing.

So I learned something important this morning, just prepping for this little discussion I've been working up for some time.

But it is that there is...

You know, there's some kind of mystical capability of a quantum computer to do calculations that would take a supercomputer like a septillion years to do.

But the quantum computer can do it faster.

Well, that's just beyond my comprehension.

But what isn't beyond my comprehension is that, and this is the additional understanding that I gained this morning, is that the very most capable supercomputers in the world right now are being applied to the simulation of small quantum computers, small in terms of the number of logical qubits that they operate.

Number of qubits actually expands the potential of this incredible computational power that quantum computing represents.

So there's a European consortium that's developed the first exascale supercomputer that just smashed a global quantum simulation benchmark, simulating a full 50 qubit logical quantum computer.

Now, the previous record was 48 qubits.

But every single qubit doubles the memory and computing requirements in the classical computer architecture.