Tim Pool

So it doesn't actually run the maze.

It can just see the maze.

Right.

Quantum computing is going to solve cryptography and break passwords, and it's going to have—

Basically, if the password is the maze, so a standard human brute force is I'm going to type in a password until I figure it out.

That's going to take you a millennia.

Then you say, I'm going to run a computer brute force where it tries every password as fast as it can.

That's flooding the maze with a bunch of people.

Then you get to advanced sorting algorithms where you're using different techniques to try and solve it faster.

I recommend the better way to explain this is just watching a video on how there's different algorithms for sorting data.

One of the more advanced would be akin to dumping water in the maze so the water just floods through it rapidly and comes out the other side.

And then quantum computing is someone's flying above the maze and says, there it is.

All at once, it can see every possible path and just go, it's right there.

It's not going to run a program for you.

Yeah, I believe that's correct, but I could be wrong.

But again, as Phil's pointing out, quantum computing isn't running programs.

Quantum computing is not going to make a video game for you.

It's not going to run a set of calculations to solve for math problems.

Well, I will give, to a certain extent, yes.

The one thing that it basically can do is make predictions by looking at all of the outcomes and eliminating the negatives.