

Human: What are bits in computer science?

Assistant: 
Bits are a fundamental unit of measurement in computing and information.  They can take on one of two states: “on” or “off”, represented as 1 or 0 respectively.  Other smaller pieces of information, called “bytes”, can be grouped together, and these chunks of information can also be understood as being composed of a sequence of bits.  This model of information helps us better understand computation and information storage, and in turn it is used to construct a model of the physical world called “quantum theory”, which helps us better understand some key properties of the physical world.
Here’s an analogy to help explain that, and remember that there’s a lot of math behind this, but I’ll just explain the important stuff for now: