Guillaume Verdon

I mean, with my main identity, I guess, ever since I was a kid, I wanted to figure out a theory of everything to understand the universe. And that path led me to theoretical physics eventually, right? Trying to answer the big questions of why are we here? Where are we going?

I mean, with my main identity, I guess, ever since I was a kid, I wanted to figure out a theory of everything to understand the universe. And that path led me to theoretical physics eventually, right? Trying to answer the big questions of why are we here? Where are we going?

I mean, with my main identity, I guess, ever since I was a kid, I wanted to figure out a theory of everything to understand the universe. And that path led me to theoretical physics eventually, right? Trying to answer the big questions of why are we here? Where are we going?

And that led me to study information theory and try to understand physics from the lens of information theory, understand the universe as one big computation.

And that led me to study information theory and try to understand physics from the lens of information theory, understand the universe as one big computation.

And that led me to study information theory and try to understand physics from the lens of information theory, understand the universe as one big computation.

And essentially, after reaching a certain level, studying black hole physics, I realized that I wanted to not only understand how the universe computes but sort of compute like nature and figure out how to build and apply computers that are inspired by nature, so physics-based computers. That sort of brought me to quantum computing as a field of study to, first of all, simulate nature.

And essentially, after reaching a certain level, studying black hole physics, I realized that I wanted to not only understand how the universe computes but sort of compute like nature and figure out how to build and apply computers that are inspired by nature, so physics-based computers. That sort of brought me to quantum computing as a field of study to, first of all, simulate nature.

And essentially, after reaching a certain level, studying black hole physics, I realized that I wanted to not only understand how the universe computes but sort of compute like nature and figure out how to build and apply computers that are inspired by nature, so physics-based computers. That sort of brought me to quantum computing as a field of study to, first of all, simulate nature.

In my work, it was to learn representations of nature that can run on such computers. If you have AI representations that think like nature, then they'll be able to more accurately represent it. At least that was the thesis that brought me to be an early player in the field called quantum machine learning, so how to do machine learning on quantum computers.

In my work, it was to learn representations of nature that can run on such computers. If you have AI representations that think like nature, then they'll be able to more accurately represent it. At least that was the thesis that brought me to be an early player in the field called quantum machine learning, so how to do machine learning on quantum computers.

In my work, it was to learn representations of nature that can run on such computers. If you have AI representations that think like nature, then they'll be able to more accurately represent it. At least that was the thesis that brought me to be an early player in the field called quantum machine learning, so how to do machine learning on quantum computers.

And really sort of extend notions of intelligence to the quantum realm. So how do you capture and understand quantum mechanical data from our world? And how do you learn quantum mechanical representations of our world? On what kind of computer? do you run these representations and train them? How do you do so?

And really sort of extend notions of intelligence to the quantum realm. So how do you capture and understand quantum mechanical data from our world? And how do you learn quantum mechanical representations of our world? On what kind of computer? do you run these representations and train them? How do you do so?

And really sort of extend notions of intelligence to the quantum realm. So how do you capture and understand quantum mechanical data from our world? And how do you learn quantum mechanical representations of our world? On what kind of computer? do you run these representations and train them? How do you do so?

And so that's really sort of the questions I was looking to answer because ultimately I had a sort of crisis of faith. Originally I wanted to figure out, as every physicist does at the beginning of their career, a few equations that describe the whole universe and sort of be the hero of the story there.

And so that's really sort of the questions I was looking to answer because ultimately I had a sort of crisis of faith. Originally I wanted to figure out, as every physicist does at the beginning of their career, a few equations that describe the whole universe and sort of be the hero of the story there.

And so that's really sort of the questions I was looking to answer because ultimately I had a sort of crisis of faith. Originally I wanted to figure out, as every physicist does at the beginning of their career, a few equations that describe the whole universe and sort of be the hero of the story there.

But eventually, I realized that actually augmenting ourselves with machines, augmenting our ability to perceive, predict, and control our world with machines is the path forward. And that's what got me to leave theoretical physics and go into quantum computing and quantum machine learning. And during those years, I thought that there was still a piece missing.

But eventually, I realized that actually augmenting ourselves with machines, augmenting our ability to perceive, predict, and control our world with machines is the path forward. And that's what got me to leave theoretical physics and go into quantum computing and quantum machine learning. And during those years, I thought that there was still a piece missing.