04 | Dead and Alive: Hype train
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When it comes to the often incomprehensible world of quantum, it can be hard to distinguish hype from reality.
We might be on the verge of a breakthrough ... or tech start-ups might be trying to drum up momentum for the benefit of their stakeholders.
Hype is important in science, but can it go too far? And has AI knocked the wind out of the sails of quantum computing?
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Guests:
Dr Tara RobersonScience communicator
Stela TodorovicMedia Director for PsiQuantum Australia
Gideon LichfieldJournalist, former editor-in-chief of WIRED and MIT Technology Review
Professor Warwick BowenDirector of the Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology and leader of the Quantum Optics Laboratory, University of Queensland
- Presenter: Jacinta Bowler
- Script producers: Fiona Pepper, James Bullen
- Senior Producer: Shelby Traynor
- Executive Producer: Petria Ladgrove
- Sound Engineer: Tim Jenkins
- Archives Research: Lisa Chidlow, Michael Osmond