[extropy-chat] D-Wave premiere of 16 qubit processor

[Ben Goertzel]

Robert Bradbury wrote:
>
> Can anyone show me how quantum computers *or* AGI apply to the 
> following problems:
>
> 1) Protein folding (presumably done through classical molecular 
> dynamics simulations) [1]

Seems clear that quantum computing can help with this, as it's a matter 
of large-scale simulations of
quantum processes.
> 2) Nano-part design
> 3) Nano-system, esp. nanorobot, design
>
An advanced general intelligence with direct sensors and actuators at 
the nanoscale would obviously do a much quicker job of creating a 
Drexlerian molecular assembler than us hairless apes, who interact with 
the nanoworld only very indirectly.

-- Ben