| | January 20188CIOReviewhere is a lot being talked about AI these days and human future is being predicted around this. But there are other major shifts happening in the world today which is shaping the future. While these are not colliding with each other, they are creating synthesis amongst them. The feasibility of digital transfor-mation powered by AI is being fuelled by the evolution in compute and availability of vast amount of data. Since AI demands more of training of neural networks, computing of different forms from CPU's to GPU's to TPU's are be-ing made available today.The first programming language that I learned was FORTRAN- the one which was created way back in 1957 by John Backus at IBM. By that time, computers radically changed the society. Things have evolved much faster in the last few years. We are in the 53rd year of Moore's law which talks about the exponential improvement in price performance and computer processes have reached the levels of as less as 7nm wafers and may go down to 4nm in the next 7 to 10 years. There is a limit to how fast the computers can be and how small the transistors can be as they are getting down to the size of an atom.We are now moving away from the binary world of the stream of numbers to a new path. The two states of numbers of representing anything is changing. Over the years of storage technology, information has been stored in 1's and 0's. What we have seen and experienced till today was built in the stable dual states of electronic circuits and has been and will continue to be robust for many years.The revolution is happening at the basic physics of computing where the dual state systems may soon get re-placed by the rules that govern the world of atoms and T IN MY OPINIONBy Saju Sankarankutty, CTO, UST GlobalSUPERPOSITION BETWEEN CLOUD AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
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