Sundar Pichai: belief

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…Where do you think Quantum will have the biggest impact? Because mainly people talk about molecular modeling, they talk about cryptography. There's Quantum proof cryptography that people have been developing over time. On the molecular modeling side, it actually looks like the deep learning models tend to be very good at that in certain circumstances. I mean, you all pioneered that with the AlphaFold. Do you think Quantum will actually matter? If so, where do you think it will have the biggest impact? At abstract level, to me, it feels like to simulate nature more and more. Given it's inherently quantum, you would need quantum systems to better simulate it. We may get there with classical computing techniques in a surprising way or get at it with enough compression. Abstraction, it may work, but I fundamentally felt like Quantum would have an edge there. I don't know, we still don't understand the Haber process for fertilizer. There are many complex… It's probably your background going back to what you did in college, more. My instinct tells me there'll be simulating weather, simulating reality, all that, I think, Quantum will have an advantage. History of technology is you get something to a scale where it works, and then you use it and people's creativity on the top finds the application. I always give this example of mobile phones plus GPS enabled Uber. There's nobody who is working on phones who would predict that as an outcome of this platform shift. I'm confident quantum will have many, many applications if you can actually make it work. That's how I think about it. Sorry, we interrupted you. You were talking about your favorite of the Google further afield initiatives.…

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