01 | Dead and Alive: Battle for quantum supremacy
Show notes
Google announces it has achieved something game changing — quantum supremacy. But not everybody agrees.
The company claims its quantum computer called Sycamore has solved a problem that no classical computer could manage in hundreds of thousands of years.
IBM wants this stricken from history.
A war of words breaks out as two tech giants race to build a useful quantum computer that could change how the world works.
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Guests:
Scott YoungCropping and livestock farmer in Ballan, Victoria
Gideon LichfieldJournalist, former editor-in-chief of WIRED and MIT Technology Review
Professor John Martinis2025 Nobel laureate in Physics
Credits:
- Presenter: Jacinta Bowler
- Producer: Fiona Pepper
- Senior Producer: Shelby Traynor
- Executive Producer: Petria Ladgrove
- Sound Engineer: Tim Jenkins
- Archives Research: Lisa Chidlow, Michael Osmond
This story was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Gadigal and Menang Noongar peoples.
More information
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processorOn “quantum supremacy” - IBM