Future Architectures

Question 1

What did IBM do that was so impressive?

Answer 1

They manipulated single atom on to the images spelling out their logo on a copper surface, each dot was one atom

Question 2

Electricity in copper is slower or faster?

Answer 2

Slower than photon speed

Question 3

What do photons need to interact with each other?

Answer 3

Electro-optical hybrids but that slow down the speed

Question 4

What is an optical correlator?

Answer 4

Special cases of the optical system used for a single purpose, it’s used for deep learning thanks to transforming calculations

Question 5

What does a filter do?

Answer 5

Reads the data but it has slow convolution but becomes first multiplication

Question 6

What company commercialise optical correlators and who invented it?

Answer 6

Optalysys LTD and Dr Nick New

Question 7

In simple terms explain what DNA produces…

Answer 7

DNA makes RNA, which RNA makes protein (base 4 encoding, alphabet-alike)

Question 8

What’s quantum architecture?

Answer 8

Objects do not just exist in a single state, they exist in a set of states each with a probability

Question 9

What does observation do?

Answer 9

It changes the state

Question 10

What’s decide in quantum?

Answer 10

Which state they are in according to the probabilities and the others go away for ever

Question 11

What’s representation in quantum?

Answer 11

When the object exists in a superposition of states each with a complex number amplitude

Question 12

What’s processing in quantum?

Answer 12

Physical action is done to the system apart from observation are unitary matrix operators on the state vector

Question 13

What’s Grover’s Algorithm?

Answer 13

Performs a search over ‘N’ items in ‘O’ (squared N) time.

Question 14

What’s a difference between transistor and ion channel?

Answer 14

Lowest level components from chemistry and quantum mechanics

Question 15

What is the macro architecture?

Answer 15

It’s like a computer but with its memory compared to the brain impulses and nerves

Question 16

What’s a microcircuit?

Answer 16

A simple machine made of several compute units, repeated in many places

Question 17

What’s a cortical pathway?

Answer 17

Hierarchical stages such as like detect edge, corner, face or an object

Question 18

What’s the meaning of consciousness?

Answer 18

No real answer, it’s all matter of discussion it can have two different meanings: unitary and coherent

Question 19

What’s the hippocampus and where is it?

Answer 19

A part of the brain, special part of the cortex, top of the structure which is modified from the rest

Question 20

What’s a standard model in physics?

Answer 20

The theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces

Question 21

What did Gödel do or say?

Answer 21

That time-travel is consistent with Einstein’s relativity, you can see the future by looking at the past

Question 22

What’s a warp drive?

Answer 22

Faster than light travel from A to B it is achieved by wrapping spacetime in front and behind like aeroplane wing (like aerodynamics kinda not alike)