Hello Friends,

I have been in Cambridge, UK, this week where I delivered 2 keynotes at the UKSIM-2024 conference held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. The theme of the conference was 'Mathematical Modeling & Computer Simulation in AI', and my first keynote was titled 'Leveraging Causal Models to Craft AI Strategy'. The second keynote was a tutorial, 'Leveraging the Double-Slit Experiment to Explore New Horizons in Quantum Computation', which is based on my view of possibilities in quantum computation which I will expand on in this newsletter.

As I walked around Cambridge I came across an unusual clock dominated by a 'Chronophage', a term coined by the artist based on the Greek words 'chronos' and 'ephagon', which translates to 'time eater'. It is meant to remind viewers of the inevitable passing of time. In the artist's words "He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next."

As I listened to another keynote at this conference on why quantum computing was necessary to resolve growing problems in AI to do with the timescales involved in training of large language models and the increasing use of energy, I was precisely reminded of the Chronophage. The reason simply, is because of the sense of the hardening into inevitable law that this speaker conveyed when reviewing questionable and unproven quantum facts as fact. This to me indicated the wastes in time the academic world and the quantum computing industry are so luxuriously engaged in, driven by the prevalent attitude that we are at the end of knowledge, rather than at its beginning.

Being only at the beginning of knowledge is what I want to convey by my reinterpretation of the double-slit experiment.

Warmly,

Pravir