US tech exec warns China is ‘a decade ahead’ on quantum

cointelegraph ^ | 10/23/24 | Cointelegraph By Tristan Greene

[RomanSoldier19]

speaker at the TechNet Indo-Pacific conference in Hawaii made the bold claim that “China is about a decade ahead of us on quantum” during a panel discussing the use of artificial intelligence for warfighting.

TechNet Indo-Pacific is a military conference held each year dedicated to discussions on defense and wartime preparedness. Its particular area of focus is the geographical area between Africa’s eastern coast and the US’s western coast.

The panel, “AI/ML as a Warfighting Advantage” took place on Oct. 22 and featured several speakers from the tech industry including the executive who issued the warning, Theresa Melvin, chief technology officer at AI firm Aerospike.

[RomanSoldier19]

[DoodleBob]

Uh huh….

And the Soviets were years ahead of us, too.

Next.

[Frank Drebin]

Translation..."We're going to need hundreds of billions more taxpayers dollars if you all don't want to die to communist robot terminators."

[butlerweave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDs6zaSRTc

[Red in Blue PA]

And yet they have the inability to make a EUV Lithography machine for Semiconductors.

Sorry, don’t believe it.

[PIF]

until 2 years ago, China was unable to make the tip (the ball) of a ballpoint pen.

[unlearner]

From their website:

Theresa Melvin
Aerospike Principal Consultant
She works closely with the extreme-scale community on AI-driven solutions and focuses her Data Science Ph.D. work on Quantum Machine Learning, bridging Quantum software and Algorithm development for Classical and Quantum Computers. Dr. Melvin advises C-Suite executives on innovation, regulation, and monetization strategies, and serves as a board advisor for non-profits in Intelligent & Autonomous Ecosystem development, while working with a global team of quantum researchers to advance technology in computing, global positioning, signal processing, and communication.

She’s a doctoral STUDENT/RESEARCHER, consultant, and official CTO of this $100M+ company.

I’d say she’s intelligent and knowledgeable but not necessarily in the know about this subject.

I’d be more interested in the opinion of someone with major military contracts or who specializes in this tech for a multi-billion dollar company.

Musk (a year ago) said US is ahead of China by 12 months:

https://youtu.be/PDy7s1SDDn4?t=2357

How could they go from a year behind to 10 years ahead of us in a single year? Does she know more than Musk? I find that too hard to believe. There are few people on the planet who know more about Ai than Musk.

[minnesota_bound]

#5 China was caught using chips made by TSMC about 2 weeks ago after TSMC did an investigation and the response so far is TSMC has suspended chip deliveries to unnamed company.