Emily Kwong

Because I can't just swap out my laptop for one.

The quantum chip is what's at the heart of all of this.

Very different than today's computers.

All right.

So on the matter of expectations, we have heard a lot of big dreams coming from the tech world regarding quantum, that it will cure diseases, solve traffic, design new batteries.

How realistic are those?

Wait, so then where are all these milestones coming from that we hear about from folks like Google?

Yeah.

And that's what Google is claiming to have done with their computer chip.

Okay, so they solved a problem that would have taken a normal computer 10,000 years accurately.

That is the breakthrough.

But then why does the U.S.

government and tech companies keep pouring money into this field if it has not yielded anything major yet?

So bottom line, if I'm telling a friend about quantum computing, what is the best, most accurate thing to say right now?

Katie or Riddle, thank you for taking the Quantum Leap with us today.

Anytime, Emily.

If you enjoyed this episode, short wavers, follow us on the platform you're listening to and check out our episode on quantum clocks.

We'll link it in the show notes.

This episode was produced by Burley McCoy.

It was edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez, and fact-checked by Tyler Jones.