(10-30-2023, 08:12 AM)A51Watcher2 Wrote: I am very familiar with how digital computers work using software to give chips orders.I started my career in 1980 working on mainframes in the operating system and had to learn how the machine works at a very low level. I've seen incredible leaps in technology but fundamentally (electrically), things still work the same way. For whatever reason, I can't get my head around how Quantum computing works! One probably needs to be a physicist to understand it but maybe that's the point. You don't need to know how it works to program or use it.
Until now the best explanation I have been given on what is Quantum computing is that it is beyond Parallel computing (which I have championed since day 1!)
I just watched really good breakdown for laymen on what a quantum computer is,
and how AI will be able to perform on them,
as opposed to standard digital chips that we use now with it.
Scary stuff though. I can't imagine what things will be like in 40 years.