Google tries to save the world: Internet giant explains how its move into quantum computing could solve global warming

  • Google’s D-Wave computer is 3,600 times faster than a normal computer
  • It uses qubits to perform calculations and solve optimisation problems
  • In the video, Google and Nasa explain the basics of quantum computing
  • They discuss multi-verse theory and give an example of optimisation
  • Faster speeds mean it can tackle complex problems such as disease, climate change and genetics
  • Google hopes it will help develop sophisticated artificial life, and find aliens

Victoria Woollaston – Daily Mail Oct 15, 2020

Google’s DWAVE is 3,600 times faster than ordinary computers and will tackle disease, like Covid, climate change and be used to develop artificial life. Click to enlarge

Not content with being the largest search engine in the world, designing the most popular mobile operating system, creating a healthcare company and helping to develop lab-grown meat, Google has now explained how it plans to solve societies biggest problems – through quantum computing.

Earlier this year Google bought a quantum computer called D-Wave Two, which can perform tasks 3,600 times faster than normal computers.

The company is hoping to use it to find cures for diseases, fix climate problems and help robots better understand human speech, for example.

In the first of a series of videos explaining a bit more about this computer and the company’s work with quantum computing, Google has teamed up with Nasa to explain the basics behind the D-Wave and why it is so important.

The company is hoping to unlock the power of the computer, which was built by Canadian company D-Wave, at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, housed at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in California.

The video begins by explaining that: ‘Quantum physics puts everything into question; it defies every intuition that you have about the natural world. Quantum is a very strange regime of physics.’

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