A quantum transhumanist startup from Brazil manages to create the first experimental model of a quantum computer brain that might be very useful for the development of the quantum transhumanism

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As you know quantum computing and AI are becoming increasingly important and are being used to solve real problems. One company, IQbits, is taking this a step further with a unique idea that could have a huge impact on the science and technology of the future.

The idea is fairly simple; there are several ways to implement a quantum computer brain. Today the two most practical methods are superconducting or optical systems. However, there are other methods like ion traps and trapped ions, or using trapped nuclear spin defects. But, what makes IQbits different is they have developed a way of building a brain using quantum mechanical effects that are a unique model.

This idea of a quantum computer brain is actually very similar to what Stephen Hawking suggested a decade ago. His idea was that he thought about it as a thought amplifier. In other words, instead of having a computer where you type in information, you would just think about something and your thoughts will be converted into a code that the computer can execute.

As you can see, IQbits is taking this concept to the next level, and actually turning it into reality.

Quantum computing in the news

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you already know how important it is to have a quantum computer ready to be able to do things like solve massive problems like the P versus NP problem, the traveling salesman problem, or even cryptography. Today IQbits is creating the first ever model of a quantum computer brain.

So what makes this model so special?

Well, according to a recent research paper published in Science, IQbits claims that their brain is “the first quantum computer based brain to perform quantum error correction, and that it is the first of its kind to be able to model quantum mechanical properties of the brain”.

So what is it that makes the quantum computer brain possible? Well, here’s a graph I’ve just created.

It is actually very complex to explain this concept, so I’ll just give it a quick summary. Basically, a quantum computer can work on a very large number of qubits at once. If you don’t know what a qubit is, it is the smallest unit of information that a computer can work with. A qubit has the ability to both be 0 and 1 at the same time. Quantum computers are made up of qubits, and each qubit has the ability to store two states, and thus can do this process called superposition, which basically means that the same qubit can store both 0 and 1 at the same time.

So, the model that IQbits have created is made up of 5,000 qubits that are simulated to be a bit like neurons. Now, the part that is important is that this model can simulate what a quantum computer can do with a superposition of 5,000 qubits. What is the point of this? Well, quantum computers are a step closer to quantum computing.

What is quantum computing?

Quantum computing is a new type of computing in which data and information are represented as a quantum mechanical phenomenon, rather than as classical bits. This would be a far departure from our common methods of computing.

What does it mean to represent data and information as a quantum mechanical phenomenon? Think of a string of classical bits. As you read each bit of this string, it becomes completely random, just as if the flipping of a coin had no logical process behind it. So if you flipped a coin 100 times, you would never be able to figure out the order that each of these flips occurred in. A quantum bit, or a qubit, on the other hand, contains a superposition of 0 and 1, meaning that as you read the qubit, the values are always present. This means that a quantum computer can do things that classical computers cannot. For example, a quantum computer can search through a database in a single operation. A classical computer would take a very long time to search a database for a specific key, because it has to cycle through each key at least once. But a quantum computer does this in a single operation.

Quantum computers are still under development, but they can be made to do things that only a quantum computer can do. This is why IQbits is using quantum computers as a model to develop a quantum computer.

Using these superpositioned qubits, what can they do?

The first things a quantum computer can do are operations that have traditionally only been available to a quantum computer. For example, it can do things that a classical computer cannot, like quantum search through a database. It can also do things that we would not normally associate with quantum physics, such as simulate systems of many interacting particles, or solve problems that are very hard for classical computers.

How many qubits does a quantum computer use?

A quantum computer only uses a few qubits at a time. Each qubit is used to represent a binary value. For example, a quantum computer might use 101, and represent the bit value 101 by having three qubits where the first and second have value 1, and the third has value 0. A single bit in this case has the same function as a classical bit, but multiple qubits are used to represent many bits. If you were to create a classical binary counter, you would use one binary digit for each qubit.

The more qubits a computer uses, the more calculations can be performed simultaneously. A classical computer, by contrast, uses only one binary digit.

How does a quantum computer work?

To use a quantum computer, we must build a quantum processor. This device is made up of a large number of different quantum devices called quantum gates.

One thing that we have to remember about the structure of quantum computers is that the state of a quantum computer is always a combination of a state of many different qubits. We are free to think of each qubit as having a discrete “0” or “1” value, but the state of a quantum computer is not simply a set of independent bits, but must also represent the possibility that each qubit has a set of other possible values, too. A quantum computer is also a bit non-local in nature, meaning that the state of one qubit depends on the state of all other qubits. Quantum computers are very large objects with a very long storage life.

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