Quantum Computing Will Help Solve Complex Problems

Tanisha Bassan, quantum computing developer, was part of the last Future trends Forum edition. She gave a talk about this technology and how it interacts with artificial intelligence.  

Quantum computing is producing a technological revolution, as it enables an exponential computational power. This may help solve some of the most complex problems in the world. 

As Tanisha explains, quantum computer leverages quantum mechanics, the rules, and the laws we use to understand how things work and how they interact at a tiny scale, at a nano scale: protons, electrons… things we cannot see, and how they interact with each other.

Two properties of quantum mechanics are very useful to understand quantum computing: superposition and entanglement. Superposition means that you can have a particle anywhere, exactly at the same time, without being seen. Entanglement means that two particles, two dots of information can be correlated: when one is affected, that affects the other one directly. 

The sheer amount of data available to us at present—unstructured for the most part—makes for a very difficult analysis and insightful conclusions. Tanisha illustrates this point with problems such as climate change, hunger in the world, the food crisis, the real estate crisis, or cancer. The amount of data regarding these problems and the links between them are so complex that one could hardly make a mathematical simulation with our hardware or software programs. 

Find out about the role of artificial intelligence and quantum computing to solve complex problems with Tanisha Bassan’s conference.

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