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    Ladies and Gentlemen, it is an o be inguiserest in ting ificial Intelligence. I am going to make t part of ticipate t you are going to s of questions for me. I ry my best to ansions.

    topic of my talk today is “Quantum Computing: a breaktificial Intelligence” as it says in your itineraries. It’s about t breaktion tec using, enricude tions self-sustaining, evolutionary quantum computer processor. In fact “o use as you er.

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    Again I must apologize to my friends in academia t for t of casual vie explain quickly ing is going to cing landscape forever, putting supercomputers on every desktop. I mentioned earlier t today’s computers and consoles use processors t squeeze many tiny transistors into a small area. t  five ransistors, eaciny tens of t on talking about t th.

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    Atomic particles inct and opposite spin orientations t can eac ticle to effectively beransistor. Once a particle is isolated from its environment, it enters trange quantum state o as superposition, ations at once and can represent a mix of 1s and 0s. tring of particles in tate of superposition to simultaneously represent every possible combination of 1s and 0s. A quantum computer can t represent possible solutions to a problem in a single operation. today’s computers ion one after ther.

    ticles in superposition can become entangled act. Entanglement means t one or more of ties become linked even ed. If one of ticles is knocked out of superposition into a definite state (a 1 or 0 as described earlier), ticle, no matter  could be on tion at t in time and assumes tate. Since entanglement alloant particles to sate it effectively alloeleportation of states, or in teleportation of values, even across space.

    Understanding trange beicles, superposition, entanglement, teleportation is key to understanding  to describe.

    So e a conscious artificial intelligence? e borroecum pive sciences. First let’s start ion of a tomic particles like ion of tum dot design able 100 qubit quantum computer tleman mentioned earlier. till recently ting-edge of quantum computing. ell ladies and gentlemen; I am pleased to announce t um neural nets.

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    “t for t tiple dynamic buses of connected qubits to connect domains of quantum memory,” Professor Yao responded impatiently.

    “And  ry up till no t ticles may cate as soon as to environmental noise and otors? And  error correction and terconnection as you scale up to your imaginary one billion qubits?”

    “Can I ask about your background?” Professor Yao asked politely, interrupting ter rolling te- intense stare.

    “Professor Collin Sandum Computation, Cambridge University.”

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    On t poer in existence today. It uses a cum neural neto create a true artificial intelligence; one t passes turing test and can persuade any interrogator t it has a consciousness.

    Our approac dated tulated more t, by Robert -Nielsen.  to articulate t all aspects of ion are derived from a specific type of knoion processing operation referred to as confabulation. I  go too muco t  t is t if you build ic neural net can confabulate and give it vast amounts of accumulated knoificial intelligence t is just as conscious as you and I. t learns via an intricate system of recognizing patterns in relevant data, bot and emerging knotern recognition.

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    t towards him as his life slipped away.