#087 - The Silicon Path To Quantum Computing with Quantum Motion CEO James Palles-Dimmock

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with James Palles-Dimmock, CEO of Quantum Motion, Cambridge-trained physicist, and one of the sharpest voices in the world on how quantum computing will actually reach useful scale.Filmed in the new London studio, this is one of the most technically substantive and hype-free conversations on quantum computing GAEA Talks has recorded. James's argument is simple and radical. Quantum computing will not scale by adding qubits one at a time in a university lab. It will scale by riding the only industrial process that can hit millions or billions of units, which is CMOS. That is the bet Quantum Motion is making, backed by over one hundred and sixty million dollars of funding, a deployed machine at the National Quantum Computing Centre and a leading position in DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.Topics covered:What a quantum computer actually is (and what it is not)Why silicon spin qubits are the only credible route to million-qubit scaleThe AI and quantum crossover - why quantum is a data generator for AI, not a competitorWhy AI's real limitation is data and world models, not architectureThe Landauer limit and reversible computingSteve Jobs's "bicycle of the mind" and specific vs general AIThe scientific method in one line - "try to make mistakes as quickly as possible"Sovereign AI as resilience, not autarkyThe Quantum Motion roadmap to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2032 to 2033Why the real breakthroughs will come from a fourteen year old in her bedroom, not a warehouse