➔ AI and Quantum Computers: Protein Folding, Prions, and the Limits of Machine Learning
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 12 is where Kaku connects two big threads from the rest of the book: artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The most interesting part is not the AI history lesson though. It is how both technologies come together to tackle protein folding and brain diseases that we still cannot cure.
AI: From Hype to AI Winter and Back
Kaku starts with the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, where scientists predicted they could crack artificial intelligence in one summer. Many summers later, we are still working on it.
➔ End of the Digital Age: From Babbage to Turing and Beyond
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 2 of Quantum Supremacy takes us through the entire history of computing in about 30 pages. Kaku starts from the ancient Greeks and goes all the way to Alan Turing and the birth of artificial intelligence. For engineers who work with computers every day, this chapter is a solid reminder of how we got here and what fundamental limits still apply to everything we build.