Jensen Huang's Quantum Computing Smackdown

In the last couple of weeks, we've heard Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang (JH) obliterate the idea that the quantum computing era is on the horizon. Huang thinks it will take another 20 years before practical quantum computing becomes a reality. In my opinion, this was the single most surprising statement and prediction from a top tier CEO over the last 5 years and perhaps the last 20 years. Does Huang truly think this or was this more of a strategic statement? I'm not sure, but I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that JH will be proven inaccurate by the end of this decade. And perhaps sooner. Why? The AI era has only just begun to impose its will on humanity. AI has been proven to accelerate the scientific discovery process by up to 200x the prevailing pace. Humanity has never experienced such a rapid change of pace and it's nearly impossible to quantify nor comprehend the significance of the time period that we are in at the moment. In simple terms, humanity is now essentially aboard a time traveling ship on course with the quantum era and many, many things that we have yet to even contemplate in our own minds. Think about this. Let's say you discover something 200 times faster than you would have a couple years ago. This discovery and knowledge then gets integrated with existing AI models. What does that do to the pace of our time traveling ship? I am not certain but I know the ship is not going to slow down, it's going to accelerate. Let's also say this new discovery enables yet another discovery faster than it otherwise would have with current AI, leading to another technological breakthrough that has never been conceptualized. When you start talking about things that have never been conceptualized and start trying to predict how they're going to impact our lives going forward, you might as well be out in the middle of space untethered by gravity or any physical object - like our time traveling ship for example - because you have no idea where you're at nor where you're going nor how fast. Do you see the degree at which our future becomes impossible to predict in the post AI world? So as companies, scholars, researchers, and the like continue to find ways to increase qubits, decrease error rates, and develop new high performance computing techniques that are presently unknown while refining the most recent breakthroughs in areas like photonics and super conductivity for example, the pace of humanity's time traveling ship will continue to accelerate at a rate that is nearly impossible to comprehend and yet directly toward the quantum era. Just in the last seemingly inconsequential 3 days, US researchers have established the first uninterrupted quantum internet signal AND (separately) discovered a Shrodingers cat breakthrough that may lead to error proof quantum systems - a feat dubbed the holy grail of quantum computing. Qool-aid anyone? 😉