Quote of the day by IBM's Daro Gil: "Not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines"

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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Although quantum computing hasn't quite hit prime time, the promise is still huge

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Although AI has sucked up all the bandwidth of public discourse across the tech industry, quantum computing is arguably just as revolutionary a technology but remains dormant for now. That said, key breakthroughs in the last couple of years are said to mean
that these machines could be 'useful' before too long. "We are now in a stage where we can do certain calculations with these systems that would take the biggest supercomputers in the world to be able to do some similar
calculation. But the beauty of it, is that we see that we're gonna continue
to expand that capability, such that not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines." Dario Gil, December 2023 Quantum advantage IBM's senior vice president and director of research Dario Gil explained to CBS' 60 Minutes exactly what the likely impact of useful quantum computers would be. Quote of the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone by. Read the full series here . The idea of quantum advantage, he said, was slightly difficult to wrap your head around. That's certain given the ratcheting-up effect in terms of power that happens when you begin to scale up these machines from just a handful of quantum bits (qubits) to thousands, tens of thousands and beyond. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

Because the capabilities of quantum computers grow exponentially the more qubits that you add to the system, it could one day achieve things we haven't been able to even conceptualise yet due to the rigid parameters of existing computing. More problems Quantum computing does represent a paradigm shift,
as Gil was trying to convey, but that doesn't mean simply building powerful hardware will help us achieve anything. Scientists are also aware that we
need to define problems to solve using these future machines. You may like Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy OBrien: "If you think the goal is
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Many companies like IBM and others have been granting businesses access to quantum computers through the cloud, but these have primarily been used for early pilot programs, to build proprietary algorithms or gear their systems for future hardware.

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