04 | Dead and Alive: Hype train

When it comes to the often incomprehensible world of quantum, it can be hard to distinguish hype from reality.

We might be on the verge of a breakthrough ... or tech start-ups might be trying to drum up momentum for the benefit of their stakeholders.

Hype is important in science, but can it go too far? And has AI knocked the wind out of the sails of quantum computing?

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Guests:

Dr Tara Roberson

Science communicator

Stela Todorovic

Media Director for PsiQuantum Australia

Gideon Lichfield

Journalist, former editor-in-chief of WIRED and MIT Technology Review

Professor Warwick Bowen