You're reading from Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business Exploring the applications, challenges, and collision of quantum computing and blockchain

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838647766

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Arunkumar Krishnakumar

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Quantum Computing and Blockchain

2. Quantum Computing – Key Discussion Points FREE CHAPTER

3. The Data Economy

4. The Impact on Financial Services

5. Interview with Dr. Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Fellow

6. The Impact on Healthcare and Pharma

7. Interview with Dr. B. Rajathilagam, Head of AI Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Conclusion

8. The Impact on Governance

9. Interview with Max Henderson, Senior Data Scientist, Rigetti and QxBranch

Conclusion

10. The Impact on Smart Cities and Environment

11. Interview with Sam McArdle, Quantum Computing Researcher at the University of Oxford

Conclusion

12. The Impact on Chemistry

13. The Impact on Logistics

14. Interview with Dinesh Nagarajan, Partner, IBM

Conclusion

15. Quantum-Safe Blockchain

16. Nation States and Cyberwars

17. Conclusion – Blue Skies

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Artificial intelligence

I mentioned AI as if it was actually developed for the first time after the social media explosion. Nothing could be further from the truth; AI has been conceptually around for a long time. The concept of robots behaving like humans was introduced in science fiction in the early 20^th century. Yet, it only started to become a serious field of research from 1950, when Alan Turing posed the question,

"Can Machines Think?"

Origins of AI

As Alan Turing started exploring that question, he came against not only mathematical challenges, but also theological objections. He refuted the argument that God had given an immortal soul to humans, but not to any other animal or to machines, hence no animal or machines could think.

He made it clear that, in attempting to make machines think, we (the society and humans) were not standing against God's will. He argued that it wasn't the first time theology and science would take seemingly...