Whether it's our phones, cars, televisions, medical devices or even washing machines, we now have computers everywhere.
Using bigger computers, we solve bigger problems like managing the operation of a power grid, designing an aircraft, predicting the weather or providing different types of artificial intelligence (AI).
But all these machines work by manipulating data in the form of ones and zeros (bits) using classical techniques that have not changed since the abacus was invented in antiquity.
Realizing the benefits of quantum computing
Humankind's tireless technological advance now faces us with problems that cannot be solved even with the most powerful classical supercomputers.
For those challenges, we need a quantum computer. By employing the strange rules of quantum mechanics, we may be able to benefit many sectors, including vaccine and drug design, financial risk management, industrial data processing, secure data and communications systems as well as machine learning and AI.
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