Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a half-case, fresh case of 2021 Panini Luminance Football. This is pick your team at number nine. A lot of great stuff in here, all card, chip, and a little break credit promo at the end if you bought at least three teams. Big thanks to everybody here who got into the action on the 21st. So Sean M ended up with that last spot mojo, Jaguars, and we did that number block randomizer that's right here. So it's just a three team number block randomizer. Now remember, there's a lot of non-numbered cards in Luminance. So all those non-numbered cards will be collected as one lot and randomized to one person in the break. So we'll gather all the names and we'll randomize and the name on top will get all the non-numbered cards. So yeah, there could be a lot of non-numbered cards with the top quarterbacks here that could go to one person here. Set that one aside next to me over here. Here's a fresh case of Luminance. Let's pop this open and let's see which half we're going to do. So there's three stacks of four. So I'm just going to take two boxes here and put it on the left side, the two boxes here and put it on the right side. So we'll have six on the left and six on the right. Let's roll the die. We're going to select that flamingo die there and then one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side and it's six right side. This side we will save for Picker Team 10. So I've marked all of those 10 so you know they're from the same case. And let's see what we got in here. Two autographs, three autographs and one memorabilia card per box on average. Good luck. And Roquan Smith leads things off and we've got a Killian Hill, 18 out of 100. So they're still in their college gear here but they have their pro teams and logos attached to the card which is nice. Mark Casanzo with the Green Bay Packers. Kind of a little dark this time of day with the light blazing through the window but nice stuff here, an all card ship, DK Metcalf to $2.99 and we've got a Cornell Powell, 64 out of 349, autograph going to the Kansas City Chiefs. Ashley Nelson with KC, David Montgomery, Saquon Barclay, Najee Harris to $2.99 and a Dwayne Eskridge, year one on card autographs so the on card autographs actually do not have team logos attached there. Take a quick look at where he ended up. I've not memorized all these guys yet. Dwayne Eskridge is a wide receiver for Seattle and that'll be for the X-Line and the Seahawks. Go to the Hawks of the Seed. Najee Harris for the Steelers. There's Ron Dale Moore to $50 and Anthony Schwartz to $10. It's Justin Jefferson, Bright Relic for Minnesota. That'll be for Jackson. Got the Viking straight up. That insert right there, Kyle Trask. Another big quarterbacks in that box, maybe in this box. All right, box two of six. We've got second year Tua right here and Joe Burrow. Jalen Hertz to $2.99 and we have a Killian Hill, year one autograph. Didn't we have a Killian Hill earlier? We did. Killian Hill is a Green Bay Packer. That's for Mark. This time an on card auto. What's going to happen with Aaron Rodgers? I think did Adam Shepter say that he rejected a two year extension or something like that? We'll see what happens. Drew Lock to $25. Fully pranks to $99. Here's our first Justin Fields, not numbered card. And a Zach Wilson insert, also not numbered. And Jalen Hertz to $2.99 for the Fly Eagles Fly. And there's AJ Brown for the Titans. Question on the pack break, five filler, for example, for exquisite. You can win two spots and exquisite win three spots within the break. So we're giving away three break spots and then giving away two exquisite spots. $99. And there's whoop, fill your $49 out of $349. Minnesota Vikings, that's going to be for Jackson. Hooper, what's up? DraftKings have partnered with Autographs, the company Autographs, to create a NFT marketplace on the app. I'm not familiar with Autographs, but I like what DraftKings is doing as a small shareholder of DraftKings. Nothing significant at all, but I'll take it. I got Alvin Camaro to $35 and a Cornell Powell autograph. I think on-card autograph, year one auto. We had him before too. Cornell Powell is a Kansas City chief. So here's another one, a second one, this time on-card for Ashley and Casey. So Autographs partnered with athletes like Tom Brady. I've heard of him. I like the sound of that. What we really need, though, Coop, is we've got to find more states getting involved in legalization of single-game wagering at their local sports book. Need more of that. All right, next box, Mr. Jared Doff. And we've got a Mike Evans Lights Out card to $100 for the Buccaneers. And a Quitty Pay to $35. And a T Higgins and another home run for Vlad Jr. How many is that for Vlad now? Solo shot, 30-second home run of the season. T Higgins, Bright Relic for Jackson and Cincinnati. Louisiana just got Daily Fantasy. Yeah, it's been a little on the slow side. It's not going to happen overnight, but I think DraftKings is pretty well positioned. There's Kenny G to $299 and a Javien Hawkins Purple Ink Autograph. So I think the different ink colors represent different levels of short-printedness. Javien Hawkins, where do you go? Javien Hawkins, I should remember this, Javien Hawkins goes to the Falcons, which is like a hawk, right? Not to be confused with the hawks of the sea. He went from a cardinal and turned into a falcon. Again, that goes to Jackson and the ATL. And there's Javien Hawkins again, Falcons, $299. And we got Rashad Bateman, $256 out of $300 for Baltimore, the Purplebirds, Aaron Billingsley with the Ravens. And behind Tyler Boyd to $99 is Ron Dale Moore, $167 out of $300. For the Arizona football cardinals, also Jackson. Tyler Boyd will go to Cincinnati, also for Jackson. Javien Hawkins, Atlanta Falcons, Jackson, and the Kenny G, Giants edition now, goes to Robert. I'm interested in seeing what Daniel Jones does this season, ladies and gentlemen. Halfway through this half-case break, you can get, say, Kwan Barkley back, right? They added weapons to that team, including Kenny G. You'd think their defense has got to improve a little bit. Daniel Jones could take another step in his evolution as a quarterback. That could be pretty, pretty good for, hashtag good for the hobby, as I like to say. If Daniel Jones takes it to the next level, especially in a big market like New York. We've got Darius Leonard to $299, and Austin Eckler, Jersey and Otto, for the Bolts. That's to $49, and that's going to go to Fuad, and the Chargers, got the Chargers straight up. Far out, Jalen Hertz, Tyler Lockett to $99, and another Javien Hawkins, this time black ink autograph on a sticker, $315 out of $349. I wonder if all the out of $349 are with that black ink, or if that's just a unique one there. That goes to Jackson and the Falcons, for $7 to $299. And we've got Davis Mills, year one Stanford quarterback, a former Stanford quarterback who I think went to the Texans. Yeah, he's with Houston now, that's an on-card autograph, and that'll be for the X-Line, Josh, with the Davis Mills. I've got Alvin Camara Green, $9 out of $10, House Calls Insert, and he likes to take it to the house. Another Green to $75, Demetric Felton, got a little Steve Atwater Relic, Denver, Patrick Davis with the Denver Broncos. Even though they're my rivals, I do like the old Broncos with the horse popping out of the D. Got to bring that back. All right, two more boxes to go. Next one, there's Kenny G. Darren Waller, Clil Mack, another Mike Evans lights out to $100, Kirk Cousins to $299, and a John Riggins vintage materials relic for the Washington football team. That's the X-Line, Josh, with WFT. No new name for them yet, huh? Stafford looks weird in that Ram's blue and gold, huh? So you should see him in a Lions uniform. There's Travis Kelsey to $299, and Jabril Cox, $56 out of $100, and this Cox will go to Mark. Josh Allen, we've got Jameson Crowder to $75, and Michael Carter, $59 out of $100. This is our first hit for the number block, Jets. Jets nine is Nick Stober, and that'll be Jets two, right there, I think that's also for Nick. Brady White to $299, and back here is a D'Yammy Brown. On card, year one autograph out of North Carolina, he ended up with the Washington football team. Sorry, hit the bell. And it goes to Josh. That's a catch, right? Look at that a catch. All right, sixth and final box coming up. First half of the case, second half will be on Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Now a very general rule of thumb, if you didn't see a lot of hits for a particular team in the first half, if you've been watching this break, I would snag them in the second half. Maybe they're all there, especially if you already bought them in the first half. You may as well just get them in the second half. Too many times do I hear people go, oh, of course, they're in the next half of the break. So no regurts. There's Brandon Cooks, Brandon Cooks to $99, and there's Sam Ellinger for the Blue Horseshoes, a tiny autograph there, with that seven out of 50 for Jeremy and the Colts. The Wents back up, I guess, is Justin Herbert. There's Jason Owa to $2.99, and Philippe Franks, three out of 10. Pinkfoil autograph for Jackson and the ATL, and we got a Trevor Lawrence card for Sean Maddock and the Jaguars. Cole Beasley to $2.99, reveals a Kyle Pitts autograph, $85 out of $3.25. He could be a really exciting player in the National Football League, and that's for Atlanta. Go to Jackson, Terrence Marshall Jr. to $50, Amon Ross St. Brown to $75. We got C.D. Lamb, a piece of his jersey for Dallas, Mark and the Boys, and Nick Bolton, Jabril Cox, and Mack Jones, not numbered. So that's part of that not numbered group that we're going to do a randomizer for in a second, but that is that for the rest of you. Thanks everybody for getting in on it. That was Luminance Football Half Case Picker Team number nine from a fresh case. Now let's see who's going to win. There's not too many of them, but let's see who's going to win those non-numbered cards. Let's gather everybody's names here. Nick and Jackson, there's some new dice. Let's roll it. Oh, that's one already, sorry. Let's roll it and randomize it three and a five eight times. So I already did one. Here's two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. After eight times, Nick certainly had the odds. Nick's name on top. You'll get those non-numbered cards in that pile there and whatever other non-numbered cards that I missed. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


If you had an algorithm that could give you near perfect health would you be willing to say yes to this protocol? Anything that happens in the world of science and wellness is instantaneously plugged into my algorithm. What blueprint demonstrated the mind is dead. Zero's principle thinking is discovering things that don't exist. How many zero's principle discoveries is artificial intelligence going to introduce to society? That's why it's going to remap society beyond anything we can imagine. Divorce ourselves from all human norms, all human customs, all human expectations. We have no idea what we want. We have no idea what we will want. We have no idea what will make us happy. It's ridiculous for us to presuppose we know anything in the future. What do we do then? Dear God, that was intense. Okay, let's let's lighten it up in here. Okay, you can come out from under your coffee tables. Shake it off. Welcome back to Lifespan News. I'm your host, Emma Short. Recently, I attended the HealthSpan Summit in Los Angeles where I took that video of Brian Johnson speaking. And in this video, I'm going to show you the highlights from that interview and give you my commentary along the way. If you'd like to watch the entire interview on Cut, I believe it's going to be posted at the HealthSpan Summit's YouTube channel, which I will link down below when it's available. For those of you who don't know, Brian is the founder and CEO of a company called Blueprint, which aims to optimize health and longevity through algorithmic precision. He was also the founder of Braintree, a payments infrastructure company. He sold to PayPal for a cool 800 million, of which he took home 300 million. So this guy is someone who knows a thing or two about building high level systems and disrupting incumbents. And his latest target for disruption is none other than this guy. Oh, no, no, no, don't feel sorry for him. He's putting on his puppy dog face. He's already dead.  Anyway, Brian Johnson is spending a lot of money and grabbing a lot of headlines by using himself as the guinea pig in chief at Blueprint. He's been called the most measured human, and this slide is straight out of the Blueprint slide deck from their website with their stated goals to make rejuvenation a professional sport and to make rejuvenation the new standard of care, which I personally think is awesome. And I wish there were more people willing to spend this much money and willing to put their own health on the line, frankly, so that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes and successes. So I want to make it clear. I think what Brian Johnson is doing is commendable, no matter how indulgent it may be. I think it's going to end up helping humanity. So good for you, Brian. That being said, I kind of have a bone to pick with his worldview in this interview. You'll see he makes a lot of strong arguments about AI, but in my view, they're not in line with what people really want. His vision for the future is aspirationally askew, in my opinion. While the idea of conquering death and optimizing health and using technology to achieve that is an admirable goal, his prescriptions for how to achieve it are one minute naive and the next kind of chilling. As the video goes on, you'll see what I'm talking about. First up, here's Brian Johnson candidly talking about blueprint. It's the most substantial revolution that's happening in the world right now is algorithms are getting better at doing the things that we care about in every domain of our lives. It just surpassed our own well-being. So in the 25th century, what if they said the thing that humans changed in the 21st century, that changed the course of humanity was they figured out how to attach their rate of adaptation to the speed of technology and science, that single thing they changed. And so that's what blueprint did is blueprint attached me to the speed of science and technology and health and wellness. Anything that happens in the world of science and wellness is instantaneously plugged into my algorithm. It's easier to do this protocol than it is to use my mind. I have demonstrated in myself that an algorithm is better at taking care of me than I can myself. And so if we just think about this, so when the first message was sent with a telegraph, the pony express was dead. The first time we had digital navigation, paper maps on the lap were dead. We know this is true blueprint demonstrated the mind is dead. Sorry, the mind is dead. And the goal is to give complete control of your well-being over to an algorithm. You know who says stuff like that? Algorithms. He sounds like he's doing PR for Skynet. And I'm not even saying he's wrong. It just all sounds so extreme. And it is, I guess. And that's the point, right? The cure for aging is probably going to take some extreme measures. And the future of intelligent machines is here. It's upon us. So we're all going to have to figure out how much control we want to give over to our new algorithmic offspring. So I hold these blueprint brunches at my house, 12 people. And I pose this thought experiment. If you had an algorithm that could take, give you near perfect health, mental and physical health, best of health of your life, would you be willing to say yes to this protocol? Now in exchange, you'd have to adopt what it's going to suggest to eat. And what time you go to bed, you'd have to follow the protocol, would you do it? And then we have a two and a half hour discussion about this. And it's wild. I mean, I've done, I don't know, a dozen of these or so. But people have multiple existential crises. It's amazing. Like, they dip existential crisis, come back up for air, dip again, come back up for air. It's just full on people recognizing that with reality, just breaks their brain in every possible way. Because people will say, like, if I can't choose what I'm going to eat, if I can't have that liberty to do it, I don't know why I exist. To me, that's what really is happening right now. And that's the revolution of foot is that there's a remap, there's a remaking of our of being human. And it's more revolutionary than we think. I gotta be honest, this does not sound like the cure for aging that I always imagined. I figured it would be like a pill or a series of injections or just a jacuzzi filled with stem cells or maybe even a brain transplant into a new cyborg body that lets me continue to do whatever I want, abuse my body, eat unhealthy things and withstand all the stresses we put ourselves through. So we can keep living our awesome lives, not some sort of black mirror algorithm micromanaging my every move. But I guess the best way to think about blueprint is it's not the final form of anti aging. It's not the final system for how to best live your life. It's kind of in this early adopter phase where the goal is to first not die so that we can live long enough for the easy pop a pill aging cure. That's cool. So what's interesting though is that this doesn't seem to be the message Brian's trying to get across. Listen to him answer the question. How do we stay human in a post human world? How do humans stay human in a post human world? I would describe this as a concept that called zero with principle thinking.  Totally reasonable.  Therefore the future is moving from a first principles thinking way of thinking where we can model out to a zero principle thinking which is we can't model out. The way you think about zero principle thinking is talent hits the target no one else can. Genius hits the target no one can see. Most of the time in life we're given targets we can see become this thing or do that thing and we play games of being ranked. Zero principle thinking is discovering things that don't exist. And so if you want to look at a zero principle type event when AlphaGo played Lisa Dole in Go so you take AI you introduce it to a game of Go human genius has played Go for thousands of years. So a lot of human genius a lot of talent Go enters the game within a few hours time it breaks the game of Go and I would say it introduced like three or four zeroes principle moves in that series of matches. So how how many zeroes principle discoveries is artificial intelligence going to introduce a society when it really starts immersing itself everywhere. And that's why it's going to remap society beyond anything we can imagine. And to me that's why Gen Zero would say we are willing and open to divorce ourselves from all human norms all human customs all human expectations we have no idea what we want we have no idea what we will want we have no idea what will make us happy we have no idea there's it's it's ridiculous for us to presuppose we know anything going into this future. And so then the case of what do we do then then the answer is we the most prize attribute we have is to be adaptable to change the only thing we care about. This makes sense in a world where we are pets of super intelligent AI. So I'm not going to argue with the logic. I mean if that's how you think it's going to go but I got to be honest I don't think that's the answer most people are looking for. Hey you know all those things you want in life those things that you care about toss them out the window welcome to the future. I just I think people want technology to adapt to them not the other way around. If we create some runaway technology that reshapes society and some exponential chain reaction where we end up being second-class citizens at best then I think we're doing the future wrong like maybe I'm splitting hairs here because obviously adaptability is a great quality and we're going to need that but I don't think we should go down without a fight. This is just such a weird way to think like if your favorite ice cream is chocolate but the algorithm says vanilla is better for you so now your favorite ice cream is vanilla you're not going to be like oh I guess my favorite ice cream is vanilla like the goal would be to re-engineer chocolate ice cream to be healthier for you not just to change my mind. Brian Johnson's vision of the future is like being in a really abusive relationship like his solution to the AGI alignment problem is to just embrace Stockholm syndrome but not just that he has another suggestion. I think we have a backwards we are freaking out about AI. I think we should be freaking out about humans. We had an opportunity before when we developed nukes we said all right we now we have these capabilities of annihilating the human race. I think we should um with more vigor than we ever have approached anything attempt to achieve non-violence to the species as fast as possible. Sorry just it's just the easiest applause break ever. Oh yeah you think the world would be better if we stopped killing each other. Someone give this guy another 300 million I'm sorry okay let's let's just move on to the next clip. There's a thousand questions to be asked what about nation states what about neighborhood feuds what about right like all these things yes agreed we are the creators of AI AI is going to mirror us when we saw uh when Kevin Rose wrote that piece in the New York Times about AI being scary it was humanity seeing itself in the mirror and saying oh my god this is scary.  It was lost on us like no one realized like no one discussed like this is us we're seeing in the mirror it wasn't AI it was us. Okay AI mimicking humans is a problem but it's a small problem compared to the AI alignment problem which is a rogue AI developing its own agenda that doesn't keep humanity safe and in a position of control this is something that is overlooked to put it nicely in the way Brian discusses the future of AI. I'll leave it at that for now here's the rest. Rule number one don't die so if we're going after don't die then we want to figure out how to achieve non-violence at every scale within ourselves between each other uh with AI and with the plant we have to achieve this non-violence harmony across everything every every agent of intelligence trillions and trillions of agents of intelligence we have to achieve this. We're not going to be able to control AI's development we're not going to be able to know where it's going to go we can't model we can't predict that the only thing we can control is the level of compassion harmony and goal alignment we have and so to me that's this is a all-out battle for the for the for conscious existence for this is an all-out battle for our existence and our best our highest likelihood of success is trying to achieve this non-violent state. Non-violence is a goal amazing give the man a Nobel Prize but a super intelligent AI might get it in its head that a non-violent human species is best achieved by putting us all in street jackets contrast it with somebody like Elon Musk who's focused on trying to build a truth-seeking AI and attempting to design AGI that adapts to our needs and goals and desires and whose contingency plan is at least connecting our brains in some sort of super intelligent hive mind through neural link so that humanity's intention can still shape decision-making about our future crazy still but at least the goal is to keep humanity in the driver's seat then you have brian johnson whose vision is to give all control to the algorithm it knows how to take better care of you than you do so remove any preference or conception of wants and desires because the algorithm is going to figure out all that for you and the best chance we have of surviving this AI future is just to be docile and acquiesce and bow down and kowtow to the higher form of life i think between the two of those philosophies you could see which one is i would say just more fun to think about so let's strive for a version of the future that's fun where the algorithms do what we want them to do and where our goals are taken into consideration above what an algorithm thinks our goals should be and if you think i've taken brian's words out of context maybe i've re-edited this to fit my narrative and he couldn't really mean any of this i would just say listen to his closing statements unedited i think it's really possible that the mind is dead i don't know if it matters what we think i don't know if it matters what we what we want i don't know if it matters we are accustomed to being alpha as a species we superimpose ourselves on all things we now have a form of intelligence that we've grossly underestimated that is moving at speeds that we can't even comprehend and we're stuck on ourselves and we have not reconciled with what is really happening here and i think it might be the most significant revolution in the history of the species where when the mind is dead we need to remake ourselves in a way that adapts to circumstances so that we can survive okay i just want to end by saying i'm not up here saying brian johnson is wrong in fact things could very well turn out exactly like he's describing i'm simply saying i think it's the wrong target to be aiming at i mean yeah we should all stop killing each other of course but you know that goes without saying i want to know what you think do you think i'm crazy am i being too hard on the guy do you agree put it all down there in the comments and for more great content make sure you subscribe to the channel and check out lifespan i o for great articles and information on longevity research like and share this video thanks for watching lifespan news i'll see you in the next one


Hi everyone, I'm Marlitha and I've been super looking forward to this day for a really long time because I thought it would be such an honor to be at AHS and have the scientific side behind it. So I'm of course going to tell you all about what I'm talking about, but first I'd like to start with a story because stories are always great, right? Everybody likes a story. So about 12 years ago I started following the paleo diet, maybe about 15 at this point, or I went paleo as was the vernacular of the day. And when I say I went paleo, I went paleo, like super paleo. And I think a lot of people do that, but I read every single one of the books, like and I think we've all read these lovely books, right? Listen to all the gurus, read all the blogs, and I became my own little paleo police as I like to call myself. So if it wasn't paleo, if it wasn't grass-fed or grass-finished, organic, all the good stuff, then I wasn't going to touch it. I had lost all of the weight that gastric bypass couldn't manipulate my genes into quite releasing. And I started getting all of these people asking me, oh my gosh, how did you do it? You should write a blog. You should start a site. You should do all that. Of course. Why wouldn't I? I mean, so I did that. And I met lots of other cool paleo people, right? And so I went to all the conferences. I went to all the paleo meetups and shout out to Daryl Edwards, who's not here because that was probably the most fun I have ever had at a conference, right, just running around in the grass and jumping on things. Who doesn't want to do that? So I did all of that and you could say that I drank the paleo Kool-Aid. I was one of the cool kids, right? So a little bit more into the paleo world than probably most people, but I knew that something was off. It's something I couldn't ignore. It was the tribe was missing something for me. And that is the warm hug of my grandmother's green beans and potatoes, right? But I couldn't have those because oops, paleo's potatoes aren't paleo. I couldn't also, I missed the warm, tender edges of her hot water cornbread, but couldn't have those either because oops, grains. And then there was the soul that was her black eyed peas. And I couldn't have those either because legumes and lectins, you know, all the lectins. And in fact, it was kind of missing any semblance of me. It was missing my heritage. Didn't have my tribe in it at all. It kind of been stripped down like the list of foods that I could no longer enjoy because they weren't approved. So I found myself looking for those foods of my childhood that fed my soul, the parts that connected with me to my culture. I also found myself knee deep in the mental torrent of orthorexia. But I mean, I was also finding that my lifestyle was taking a toll on me physically and emotionally. My skin was a wreck. Anyone who has ever had an autoimmune issue knows that it's no fun to be stressed, but my eczema was a mess. And I also had uricaria, which is recurring hives. That's not fun either. And it would just keep coming on and off, no matter how compliant I would be. And I would love to show you an image of that, but I photoshopped all of those so that it wouldn't look so bad. Those are all gone. I needed to maintain the healthy image, right? And it was sort of not my unwillingness to take part and to be compliant. It was more that something was missing. I would even venture to say that my social connections were very damaged because I would not only take my own food to all of my social gatherings, but if the food wasn't up to my standards, I would intermittent fast. And of course, we're knowing that that's not really winning any friends when you show up with your own food or don't eat theirs. So it just wasn't winning any popularity contests with that type of behavior. So I wasn't enjoying life. But I knew that no one would really know that as long as like my super shiny exterior was looking all that great, but you didn't know what was going on on the inside. And that to me is super important. And so I was smiling outside. Everything was great. But what was missing was my heritage, right? So I decided to put my science degree to work since it was doing nothing but collecting dust at that time. Anyway, because I was no longer teaching, I was at home with my kids. And I dove into peer-reviewed studies. I was looking at journals trying to find anything that would show me what my heritage foods would look like. What did they eat? What was healthy for them? What helped them to survive? Because there had to be something out there, right? Some nutrients of those foods since these people had to survive the brutalities of slavery for decades and then more gross injustices. So there had to be something. But there was one study that I found and there it is that kind of helped me and it was kind of disheartening to find that. So I decided to embark on my own little in one study. And this 2010 study did give me some hope. It was a starting place for my own in one and searching for different patterns of practice and lifestyle and environment because of course it's more than just food. It's not just what we're putting in our mouths that make us healthy. It's a holistic approach. I know a lot of times we spend a lot of time focusing on macronutrients and micronutrients and all the good stuff of science. But there are some things that can't be quantified by science. And so that was also what was studied here in this study and thought I would base mine on this. So these researchers, they studied the elders around the world for some wisdom and what has sustained them for so long. And among those elders were my elders which is the West African elders. So yeah, good idea. Let's talk to people who actually made it to old age. Their mental, physical and spiritual health intact and what did they do to get there. That's a great idea. So I thought let's let's do that. I mean that's kind of why we're all here is ancestral health. So what they found was grouped into three major categories. The first one was philosophy, attitude and outlook. And that's kind of your mindset, how you see things when, how you deal with problems when they occur and your outlook. And then the second one was lifestyle practices. And then lastly they dealt with dietary nutritional practices which we get a lot of. So these elders demonstrated a really comprehensive but simple set of practices that I think can enhance our own vitality and promote sustainable longevity. Which is I think what the goal is. So in essence, the practice of wisdom of our longest living elders, it promotes the spreading of healthy lifestyles by following traditional ways of taking care of the body, the mind and the spirit. So again, I use this as a super simple framework for my own in one experience experiment. Now if I'm to be honest, philosophy, attitudes and outlook are not something that we really discuss a lot of when we come to these conferences or any conference.  So we really don't hear those things. For the most part of the wellness movement, I think, and this is my opinion, but I think it's based on fear. Fear of not getting sick or sicker if you're already sick. Fear of eating the wrong foods. Fear of moving the right way or not moving the right way. Or fear of, you know, oh my God, looking good naked. I've heard that a million times. So that's kind of what we kind of base our actions on. But studies have shown that our DNA, of course, as we all know about epigenetics, but our DNA is controlled by signals that are outside of our cell. So in other words, the cell's environment matters much more than, you know, what we might think. The cell wall, you know, is selectively permeable, so that means it selects what it lets in and what it lets out. And those selections, what it chooses to let in and let out is really based a lot on the environment that that cell is in. So what's really, I think, really fascinating about that is that those signals, those thoughts, what tells that cell to, hey, let this in, don't let this in. Those are thoughts, that philosophy, attitude, and outlook. So if you have a terrible outlook, terrible philosophy, terrible attitude, then those attitudes, those thoughts, those feelings actually do affect our cells. So if you have a terrible thought about a specific food or food group, for instance, it can affect the way that your cells process that. And I thought that was really interesting that those ancestors believe that the balance of mind, body, and spirit, not just of what we're eating, the balance is what was essential to well-being. A lot of times we focus on one piece and not the rest, and that that intimacy with nature is profoundly important. So outside of the fields of slavery, for instance, my ancestors were looking for ways to lead a stress-free lifestyle, looking for ways to rest, because rest is super essential to this other piece of our philosophy, our attitudes and our outlook. It is essential to surviving and finding ways to relax and enjoy your life is very much a part, should be very much a part of your day-to-day activities. Our ancestors, my ancestors focused on living in the present and didn't dwell too much on the past, and they didn't spend too much time worrying about the future because that breeds anxiety. There is a belief that being in the present actually made way for the future. They didn't operate based on that fear that a lot of us tend to operate on, and even though their reality was grotesque, to say the least, they were hopeful about the future, and they had a pronounced resiliency about them. They had an obvious respect for community, and so their peers and elders and leaders and including nature and life in general, they had a respect for that community. They had a community care was very big, high on the list of things to do and take care of. They knew that in order to be healthy, the mental, spiritual, and not just physical health was important for all members of the community, and it needed to be kept at the forefront. They respected community. They respected it from a web of life perspective in that we're all connected, and what effects one affects all. The perspective was observed throughout the history of Africans in America that elders collectively were peaceful, and they traded lightly giving thanks and representing all life. They always had passion and purpose no matter how simple it seemed. The physical, mental, and spiritual health of all members of the community was a community concern, and they knew that disregarding any of those pillars, any of those was similar to having a tripod with just one leg, and it can't stand, right? So we can focus on one thing, but it's just not going to be successful. With this information in hand, I decided to focus the part of my little experiment on the philosophy attitudes and outlook of my ancestors, and so I was raised obviously with respect for my community and never departed from those teachings. So I chose to focus on adding life to my years and not years to my life, not just, you know, adding years to life, which is a nice little quote that I found. It's like, oh, that's kind of cute. I'll throw that in there. So that was the goal for which my ancestors strove is to add life to years. And so what I did to do that is I got rid of my alarm clocks. Yes. I changed my schedule so that it would begin after my morning meditations. So when the previous presenter was talking about breathing, that is definitely one of the things that I have totally incorporated was because it definitely changed part of my lifestyle. I also switched a lot of my high intensity trainings for walking and playing with my kids and gentle stretching to reduce a lot of the stress that was in my life. I know a lot of people can't do that, but totally what I did. And the ancestors in order to stay alert mentally, this part of their lifestyle practices, I think a lot of people can do. So there was a lot of reading and memorization and joking. And I love the part about the memorization earlier and singing and playing music and storytelling. And I practiced this in my own life by telling having, we have a weekly story night at home and we retell stories of the week or our favorite adventure when we went out on a vacation or our favorite memory of my grandmother who's no longer with us. And it helps us to retell those stories and it helps our children to understand that it's very much more than just the memorization but it's more about connecting as a community because again, we are all connected and it is more than just one. So this quote from Robert Waldinger, not going to read it to you because I think you all can read, is the director, he's one of the director of the world's longest running studies of adult life. And he's evidence that the elders were definitely onto something. They were deeply involved in this community aspect and they were connected, they were rarely lonely. A lot of times I think we kind of take the food thing as let's just eat these specific things but we don't understand that there is a human connection in food and being connected to each other and sharing a meal with someone and actually making eye contact and having those conversations is part of our community. And this is what definitely I learned a little bit and it's again why I partake in storytelling and telling to the younger generations and sharing with my community because it's not just about a meal but it's about the exercise that stretches your mind. It's about the exercise that keeps your mind active but also those traditions alive, right? So I retell the stories of my family and again, pass on those traditions like family stories and beloved recipes and cooking in the kitchen with my kids, it's part of our connection. And speaking of recipes, yay, food, I'm sure we can all agree that traditional diets are the best and studies repeatedly demonstrate that those are the best diets for us but whose tradition are we talking about when we look at these, whose ancestors? Frankly, the diet and nutritional practices of my ancestors have been studied in the wellness community is little to none and it's pretty much not there. And so the book that we're widely pronounced that I was studying I was telling you about that were the gold standard in the community really didn't include my specific ancestors so I kind of had a really hard time trying to sort of piece together the dietary nutritional practices of my ancestors which are obviously from Africa. I know it's a shocker but it's true.  Here's my 23andme report which is kind of tiny but I'm 88% West African and so I, the other 12% as, I don't think you can see it but the other 12% is made up of 10% European and 2% Asian and indigenous. And so I started to think, okay, why am I basing my dietary practices yes on great, they're on traditional people but which traditional people I'm basing mine on 10% and so I needed to switch those things around and that's exactly what I did. I no longer wanted to ignore the 88% of my genetic makeup in my dietary practices. So what I did is I dug into, gosh this was really hard, I dug into the dietary nutritional practices of my ancestors but I had to like do a whole lot of research because it was really not easy to find a lot on the specific areas that I am from and so I scoured the internet. I did find some really great resources. This one from old ways was the African Heritage Diet Pyramid and it is based specifically on West African diet and so what I did is I discovered that many of the foods that were brought here on those slave ships and how they were adapted to give them the nutrients that they needed to survive all of the virtualities that they were about to go through. I learned that they enjoyed many of the foods that I thought were terrible and that had been vilified but I decided I'm going to bring those back in and some of those foods are like peas, tubers which are okay now, beans, peanuts and oh my gosh, grains. That's like a curse word. I know but some of the grains that I enjoy are folio and armanath. You know some of the ancient grains it's not, I'm not telling you to go out and have a slice of, I mean you can have pizza if you want but it was not included in the African heritage diet. So they knew how to process these foods so that they would have the most nutrient densities for instance, soaking grains and soaking beans right and I knew that because my grandmother taught me how to do it back when I was a little girl and her mother and her grandparents taught her how to do it and so it's been passed on in tradition and I knew this and so I was like why did I say that these were terrible right? So I knew that they had been processed the right way because again they had given all of the nutrient density to my people for centuries. So the West African diet as you can see is not centered around heavy meat. It's centered around leafy greens. That's the base of the pyramid and then a lot of vegetables and grains and then even more greens. Those, that's actually just a different type. I know it's really hard to see but the biggest meat, the biggest protein source is fish and I absolutely love fish. If I were to listen to my body I would probably be a pescetarian because I love fish and then a little protein and some oils up there and dairy and then at the very tippy top sweets but we know I learned today don't eat those first, right? So, but this is the typical African diet like I said from my ancestry and what I was able to find. And then so here's what I did for my experiment. The first thing I did was to include those traditional foods right and then here's the hard part. I tracked everything. So I tracked all of my results. The pandemic of course gave me a lot of extra time to track those results especially over the last year and so I used a lot of my grandmother's recipe books. I used her mother's recipes and I found a lot of foods from. I ordered these really great traditional grains which I thought I would never be able to find but I was and I incorporated those into my diet and what I learned over time was kind of, I think eye-opening for me especially having been so ingrained in the things that I should not have had. I thought, oh my gosh, this is going to be terrible. My numbers are going to look a hot mess. But what really happened was that my body loved every minute of it. My health markers improved vastly. My sleep, I went from about maybe five to six hours of sleep to about seven to eight hours of sleep and of course I don't have an alarm clock but I didn't have one when I started either. So my quality of sleep has been better. Of course we have all these bile trackers so I can actually see that this number has improved. But also my blood pressure has improved. It was, my numbers were all over the place but they have improved vastly. And then I said goodbye to inflammation which I think is great. Oops, I went the wrong way. I said goodbye to inflammation and what I mean by that, I'll get right back over there, give me one second. There we go. Is that my skin, like I told you, was a hot mess. I was covered in eczema.  And then I was plagued also with urticaria which is chronic hives. And I haven't had an episode, a flare of chronic hives in probably a good seven months which is to me pretty amazing. And as you can see, I don't have to photoshop my hands this time. So that's definitely a plus for me. And then finally, the hair that was falling out when I was very strict was, has also grown back and it grew back, not just back but it grew back thicker, yay. So to me, like I said, I've incorporated these other aspects of, those food aspects of my elders wisdom but I also incorporated the other aspects like you know, not being a jerk about what kind of food you take to social situations. And so my community relationships have improved. And I think also importantly, my own body image has benefited greatly from this process. And what I know is that we're all beautifully different, right? And that's perfectly fine. I realize that we're not all meant to look exactly the same in order to be healthy, that health does not have a look. I realize that not only do these foods feed my belly but they fed my soul and my soul was starving for the foods of my ancestors. The food that I had banished from my queendom because they had been deemed bad by all of the good wellness gurus. So finally, here's my takeaway for you. Health is not, this heritage in health is not a either or situation. You can either have some of your heritage or you got to be healthy. It is a both and situation. So you can explore the foods and the traditions of your culture and be healthy. They both fit in. You don't have to pick one or the other. This is definitely a both and lifestyle. So here's your mission. Should you choose to accept it? I've always wanted to say that. I was like, I'm going to put that in because it sounds cool. I would be a Bond girl. But I would like to encourage you to look at how your heritage might be missing from your current wellness practice. And if you're like, well, I don't have any heritage, we all do. You can go all the way back even if it's just something that you did with your grandmother over cooking because again, it's not just about the food. It's about the traditions and the connection. And so did you do something that you've eliminated? Is there something that is missing now that you've, you know, that or some food that was excommunicated from your clean eating lifestyle? For me, it was definitely my grandmother's hot water cornbread which was, you know, I missed it. And so I brought it back. Do you have a tradition that you're missing? Bring that back, tuck it in. I would also like to encourage you to experiment to feed your soul and discover your own path to enhance and produce or promote longevity for you because we're all different. We're all unique. Your heritage is different.  We all are. And lastly, I would like to encourage you to share your findings with the world. Remember, storytelling is good for us. We learned that today. And just as in nature, like we learned, diversity only makes us stronger. And so make sure that everything that is different, you do share with us. We'd all love to learn, at least I would. So thank you so much. This has been great. Any questions? Thank you so much for your presentation. It was moving, humorous and enlightening. So many things. So many good things. Thank you. I have a question about the African heritage diet that food pyramid is like a wow. I love that. It's beautiful. Towards the base of the pyramid are like sweet potatoes, peanuts, squash, maize, potatoes, and beans that are new world crops. So would have only been in Africa on any kind of scale for just a few hundred years at most. Yeah, no. So what happened is Africa has always had yams, always. And yams in Africa are completely different than the yams that are here and that are present. And so this is just representative of sort of what we can do here in the U.S., what we can do now to sort of take the place of the yam that we don't have access to anymore. I mean, you have to be really scouring the world to find those yams, the actual food. So this is just more of the how, as a child of the diaspora, how can I now take the traditional African diet and adapt it so that I can get as close as I possibly can to those foods? So there'd be analogs to like the peanuts and squash and beans that were purely new world crops? Exactly. So for instance, rice, rice is, I think rice is there somewhere. Rice has always been, I always thought in my studies, rice was not African at all. Like why would I even consider rice? But rice actually is very African and they actually brought specific slaves to the U.S. to farm those crops of rice because they were so good at it in Africa that they brought it here. And so something like that that is, obviously I'm not going to get that African grain of rice, but I will still be able to incorporate unprocessed or brown rice. You're wild rice, for instance. Right. Wild rice or North care, they have a Carolina gold rice that is more traditional for the people, for my ancestors as well. So it's things like this, this pyramid is more like, how can I adapt this, the African diet to my now diet? Things that I can access. Thank you. Thank you for the question. Oh, Arlitha. Yeah. Excellent talk. Thank you. And as you were talking about the lack of resources you could find like in PubMed or places like that, have you thought to consult or have you ever heard of the human relations area file called abbreviated HRAF? And they have it online now. You've heard of that? Yes, I actually have a subscription. Okay, because I've used that for some research back when I was a graduate student. I found it to be an invaluable source. It's basically a collection of data from ethnographers who have lived among traditional pre-industrial people from around the world. So you can like isolate to certain parts of the world and gather all kinds of aspects of lifestyle including I would guess nutritionally. And that's actually how I found out about Phonio. I'd never heard of Phonio ever. I mean, I was like, what, what is that? And when I found it, I was like I have to have this and I scoured Amazon for it and I finally found it was pretty expensive, but I got it and now I can find it at Whole Foods. So it's becoming more, I think it's becoming more mainstream to be able to offer different ethnicities and different backgrounds, foods that are locally. But yes, that is one way that I found out more about what types of grains, because it'll just say grains and I'm like, yeah, what kind? You know, or what kind of greens? So yeah, thanks for that. And I'm glad you brought it up because other people can hear it. I'll follow up question and then we'll bring the microphone over there. Did you say you're writing your personal research and up in form of a book or something? I am writing it, but it's ongoing because I also, I'm following my kids because I wanted to see how moving, because they've been, they were paleo from the time they were two. So I'm wanting to see what their results are as well. So I'm writing it up. H-R-H-R-E-F-S. H refs, H-R-A-F, sorry. H-R-A-F-S, H-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A, yes. A-E for me. I have a question. Yes, sorry. Your eczema, you talked about, did you figure what the triggers were and then what the remedy was when you kind of dieterally? Yes. So just as any other presentation of disease, There's always something underlying, there's always a cause, and for me it was multifaceted. It wasn't just what I was eating. I had been on, and I'll tell you how terrible my eczema was. I was actually admitted to Mayo Clinic for a month because it was bad infected. So it wasn't just like, oh, it's bad, I have a rash, it was terrible. And so stress was my biggest, biggest trigger. I realized that once I was able to stop having these jolting alarm clocks, stop having missing my sleep, eliminate a lot of the stressors of actually trying to follow a very, very dogmatic diet. When I sort of relaxed that a little bit, it relieved a lot of the stress. When I walked, I found that not exercising as hard as I was was actually causing flares for me. So when I was doing the hardcore crossfit, I was breaking out in hives. So I would have a flair. And so for me it was the stress, more than one stressor, but for me it was stress. And then when I changed my diet to include the other foods, it still cleared up. So it wasn't necessarily including the other foods 100%, but it was more stress for me. One other thing was I had just come across High on the Hog, the book. Such a good book. Which opened up so many things. And we ran into the chef at the farmer's market out here who was doing the reenactments of the presidential dinners that they had done. Yeah, the macaroni and cheese. So I'm excited. Next week, the hog head that's sitting in the, I'm going to do my first head cheese one of these days. That's so awesome. Every time I open the freezer, it's still there communicating. Check out the Netflix special too. It's also really good. They've renewed it for a second season. So High on the Hog is what he was saying and it's really good. Thank you for that. Yeah. My question is, and maybe it's for everybody to ponder, but for you specifically, how did you determine, and I think I know the answer. I think you explained it, but how do you determine where to define ancestral? And I think for myself, I've been exploring the hundreds of thousands of years or millions of years prior to agriculture, and I consider, for me, for my learning process, that's my ancestors. And of course, we all began in Africa, but long before the splitting off and how agriculture has influenced the human body, and then the modern day and all of that. So I guess my question is, how do you decide what ancestral is? And I think it's for you, it's culture and what relieved that stress. And congratulations. Thank you. That's a lesson for everybody is to find your path, what works for you, and it's not going to work for everybody else. I agree. And that's exactly what culture is, and how you define your ancestry is your ancestry. And some of us, of course, will have overlap, right? We're going to have some, some of us have the same things that work well. For instance, we, none of us need to make a diet based on donuts, and like, we just don't. That's not good for anyone. However, you know, saying that some people, no one ever needs to eat rice is something that we can't say is a blanket statement. Some people do need to incorporate rice. Maybe it's better for them, maybe they feel better. And so I would like to encourage you, yes, find the framework, but find your particular path in that framework because we're all different. And even though we all want to have an easy way out, like, yes, let's all do this one thing. It's not easy. It's not going to work for everyone.  You have to, we can, we can listen all day, but you still have to plug it into your life and make it work for you. Sorry. Okay. Do you know this with your family? Well, so the cool thing about, you know, being a technical family, a techie family, my husband's super techie, is that we were still able to connect. Obviously, everybody and their mother was on a Zoom meeting. How many people did not have a Zoom meeting with your, like, everybody had a Zoom meeting? Right? So we had, like, Zoom, we had a Zoom family reunion, for instance, last year. My grandmother, I lost both of my grandparents during the pandemic. And so we couldn't really go to see them, which was really hard for us, but we did. We were able to connect.  And I would, again, like, to encourage everyone to connect to their community, because it's so healthy. And we, I think a lot of times we miss that. That's why we're here, right? Yeah, definitely. Well, thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks. Right now we come back with our last presentation of the day at 4.20. So you guys have about 14 minutes.


Good morning. Good morning. Let's take a minute invite all our friends and colleagues to sit down so that we can get started But first welcome to the 2023 quantum summit we could not be happier that you've joined us today. My name is Dario Gill I am senior vice president at IBM and the director of IBM research and Wow, what a year 2023 has been from the perspective of technology Look computing from AI to semiconductors to quantum computing it is once again driving markets and birthing industries and really igniting people all over the world and the Imaginations of what we're gonna be able to do with technology And I really believe that we are living in the most exciting times in the world of computing Probably since the advent of either the digital computers in the 1940s or the transistor in the late 50s and Really now with these new technologies We begin to have an opportunity to start tackling problems that we didn't even think were possible to be addressed With the previous generation of technology I'm proud to say that this year marks my 20th anniversary at IBM and Thank you And I hope you you're getting to see that The company is just so different than it was even five years ago And this is in no small part because of the foundational work that we carry out in the R&D community inside IBM and Frankly the rate at pace at which we are commercializing technologies Look in my 20 years at IBM. I have never seen us Commercialized technology at a faster pace than we're doing it today We like to say that within the research division that we are the organic growth engine of the company and we're really relentlessly Focus on how do we bring the innovations that we're developing in the R&D community and bring them into products? And I highlight as an example of that rate and pace what we've done this year with AI I Mean we all know that in the world of AI, you know as far as the public is concerned Certainly has entered the public imagination of what is possible with the technology We had become deeply passionate about the role of foundation models for quite a few years inside the research division But this year we commercialized and created with an intensity that is unlike no other a new platform to bring Generative AI to the world of enterprises and government called Watson X and we were able to do this in a matter of months Back to this theme of commercializing Technology faster than ever before and people are really noticing But of course there is more there is the world of quantum and Look I remember reading, you know a few decades back some of the core ideas around quantum information science and Thinking how powerful those ideas were to become and if you look at that journey now They're becoming a reality and the journey has been amazing Recall that we made news in the context of the quantum industry in 2016 when we put the first quantum processor on the cloud and within a week We had five times more members that had joins and users than we had expected and really that marked the moment where Quantum computing became accessible to the world first it showed two hundreds then two thousands and Eventually to close to half a million people that quantum computing is something to be considered embraced and nurtured now in 2017 we introduced kisket or open source quantum SDK and It has become the most widely used software development environment in the world for quantum In fact, let me give you a statistic over 81 percent of quantum developers prefer it as do over half a million users That same year we launched the IBM quantum network and it exploded We now have over two hundred and eighty members today and many of you are here today. So I thank you for that In 2018 we also established the quantum innovation centers which have now grown to 38 worldwide in 2019 we launched IBM quantum system one It was the world's first fully integrated and commercially available Quantum computer and since then with deploying quantum system ones all over the world They're now system ones in Germany Japan in Canada more are being installed in South Korea Spain Japan and here in the US All this activity is really fantastic and staggering and it is why we have come to call these past few years They are out the emergence of quantum computing and during this time We have developed more quantum computing power and put in the hands of more people than anyone else in the industry Now it's really been remarkable to see the problems that the community that we built together Have been able to tackle it really hasn't been easy and But what's made it possible is our philosophy of continued rapid innovation in both hardware and software In hardware we bought we brought at least one quantum processor every year with a signature breakthrough in 2019 we introduced Falcon a 27 qubit processor a Year later hummingbird boasting 65 qubits And in 2021 we broke the hundred qubit barrier with Eagle and Just last year we introduced Osprey with 433 qubits and Today as promised we're announcing Condor with a soaring 1,121 qubits With Condor we have solved the problem of scaling of qubit scaling Now we're taking that knowledge and applying it as we build larger systems and Of course, we didn't stop here. We were also dedicated to improving gate quality and increasing the circuit depth and That is why as excited as we are about Condor we're even more excited about Heron This is Heron the most Performing quantum processor in the world and the one that will truly scale quantum computing While Condor removed the road black to scale Heron pushes circuit depth and Quality with its tunable coupler technology that I'm so proud to introduce today And wow if you look that the collective achievements on both on the hardware and the software and the ecosystem Let me give you a statistic that is remarkable These are the number of circuits that have been executed in IBM Quantum's fleet over three trillion of them So if we recap what we have accomplished over the last few years it really has been phenomenal and a moment to celebrate and We would say that that phase marked the emergence of quantum computing and that it is time now to move to a new era That we're humbly calling the era of utility Utility is the theme of this quantum summit and there was one key advancement That we believe mark the transition to this new and exciting era In June the team published a breakthrough in scaling quantum computations that was featured on the cover of nature The title of the paper is evidence of utility before fault tolerance In it our team showed that we can now run large circuits with over a hundred qubits And a circuit size of almost 3,000 gates and extract noise free estimates from them So simply put these goals beyond what you can simulate with brute force classical computation and The implications are really huge and I know so many of you jumped on it This is what mark the utility era and now the community is running experiments in our quantum systems today That have both a scale that is large enough to investigate the utility of quantum computing Beyond brute force classical computation and with this new era We also bring a new system So it is also my privilege to reveal to you a system like no other in existence a computer with an architecture that is powerful enough Modular and flexible enough to grow with us as we continue to match forward in this journey So say hello to the IBM quantum system, too It is prime cooled and Running hundred plus qubit problems just north of us at the TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York Look, this is not your typical standalone system This is truly a modular system that allows us to connect them into larger more powerful Quantum systems. That's why we call it the building block of quantum-centric supercomputing I truly believe that this era of utility will cement IBM quantum as an important tool for science and business and We're bringing this technology to all of you as fast as we're innovating it but look a System in the end is only as powerful and as useful as we make it driven by simplicity and That is why we are bringing the power of Watson X and generative AI to make our quantum systems and kiss kit ever easier to use I'm showing you here an early prototype Still not quite ready for prime time, but I wanted you to see the future today Here you see that you can use natural language prompts to generate kiss kit code and This is just the beginning Imagine what the platform is gonna feel like in the next few years as we bring and we will the full power of AI to our quantum platform So this is today's IBM more focused faster more open than ever before and It really is an incredible moment and it feels very different than we've ever done before or CEO Expresses that IBM is a hybrid cloud and AI company But made no mistake When all of this is said and done IBM will be a hybrid cloud AI and quantum computing company a Company that is dedicated to perfecting each of these powerful computing platforms but also the tools to be able to combine them and Extend them to achieve and solve problems beyond what we know is possible and You my friends will be part of that journey and that mission and On that note, I want to pass it on to the great J. Gambetta Who's gonna come on stage and share with you all the other amazing work and great? Advancements that have brought us all together today. Thank you Thanks, sorry Thanks, Daria Good morning everyone and welcome to the IBM quantum summit Thanks so much for joining us on our mission to bring useful quantum computing to the world and make the world quantum safe It's great to see Our clients and part many of our clients and partners here without you IBM quantum would not be possible Many of you have been with us for a while, but there are many new faces So I wanted to take a moment and just acknowledge our new client clients and partners We welcome quantum computational centers with BASQ RPI and Recon We also welcome new quantum innovation centers with NQCC KQC and the University of Copenhagen Our new commercial partners are EY KY K Sorry KPMG T systems and SAP and our new industry clients are Branko, Bradesco, Dao, Hyundai, Israel Aerospace Industries, Itao, Madara Sorry Moderna, Mitsubishi, Electronic, Pfizer and Truce Thank you all So now let's get started as Daria said we've ended a new era in the history of quantum computation and we call this era the era of utility We've done a lot of important work. We've learned a lot about quantum computing applications for instance in simulating nature data with structure search and optimization and we as the community have published Thousands of papers. I think it's 2.5 thousand papers are being published But there's a lot more we can do until recently We could run most of the experiments on a laptop as or as this graph shows even in 1981 IBM PC We need a disruptive change if we want to extract utility from quantum and Earlier this summer we published a paper that shakes this up. We call it the utility paper We showed that quantum can tackle problems beyond brute force classical computing methods and that's what we mean by quantum utility I think of utility as the first Milestone to the road to quantum advantage We got here thanks to the novel era suppression and our mitigation methods and in four years We've able to be we've been able to increase it by a thousand times. We can now run thousands of gates and I want you to keep this in mind for the rest of the day and What's more in this utility era? We're starting to treat quantum as the source of truth and Classical methods only serve to verify our results and don't take my words for this These are the words of many papers that simulated the results of this nature paper But what's even big more important is this past summer We've seen at least six more utility experiments that have run quantum circuits with more than a hundred qubits and using hundreds or even thousands of gates These experiments are advancing fields that go beyond quantum computation. They're using quantum computing for quantum computing Is now a tool for discovering Discovering in scientific domains like material science condensed matter and particle physics And we're starting to see this disruptive change I was talking about the community is using quantum computers to do things beyond what we can do with exact classical simulation And I hope you'll join this groundswell of disruptive change You can start using quantum to explore scientific realms that weren't accessible before I like to say if you're not using a hundred qubits, you're not doing quantum So I'm going to bring Rajiv to the stage to tell you about what's next in hardware. Thank you Jay Right morning everyone So I'm going to talk to you a little bit about some of the systems we've put together for this era of utility All right So you've probably seen this road map that we've talked about in the past that we've been executing on for the past few years from our 127 qubit Eagle processor Released a couple of years ago to our 433 qubit Osprey system announced last year We've continued to deliver on these technology innovations What I'm really thrilled to share about today is these exciting results from the work We've done on a quantum systems this year and we have two of them to talk about first in This era we've been pushing scale to the limit and we've done that with corn door the world's largest quantum computing processor No claps Condor is a result of our exploration into single chip scaling and fridge capacity It pushes the limits of how many qubits can be put on a single chip and the ability to yield those qubits So they work day in and day out which I can tell you is not a trivial task With condor we asked what are our challenges that would come fitting over a thousand qubits into one chip and into one fridge For example on the left you'll see how we've added layers of superconducting metal wiring to solve the density problem And on the right you'll see a key metric of coherence time is very similar Between condor and osprey which was our 433 qubit processor last year So the learning on scale that we set out to get on this chip is off to a flying start and we're really excited about it So just to summarize condor is our 1121 qubit chip it Features a 50% increase in qubit density and over a mile a mile Think about that of super high density flex IO for signal delivery All fit within a single fridge Wow So the technology we put into condor helped us figure out a key piece of the puzzle to solve our scaling problem You know that's behind us But from our utility experiments, we know that gate depth and quality matters and that's where the next step in our journey takes us Don't get me wrong. We are super excited about condor, but what we are really really excited about is her and here it is My lovely assistant J We're going to show you a real life Heron processor brought here especially for you Thank you J. Thank you. All right Heron is a 133 qubit chip Learned from our experience from fixed frequency qubits with a twist Making the couplers tunable to give us the flexibility we need a Little bit of a history lesson back in 2019 when we realized we had to do something different The team really went back to the drawing board to explore new gate architectures The results that you're about to see reflect the fruits of that labor This is our first Heron chip codename Monte Carlo, and it's already showing Significant improvements over our best eagle It has half the gate error rate and some fidelities in the three nines. It's amazing But what's more important? We virtually eliminated crosstalk, right and I'll talk a little bit about it and it has a Significant improvement in gate time This is going to give our users a huge advantage in the utility era and Give us a solid foundation for where we can continue to scale our modular processors Amazing and now I'm going to show you over the next few little slides how much Heron has really improved So this is a measurement to assess qubit to qubit crosstalk, right? You'll see two curves on the right the gray is the isolated qubit operation and the darker line is Where you address multiple qubits? You'll see that our best eagle signal clearly degrades over time in the multi-cubit operation That's not what we wanted and now you look at Heron in a very similar operation It hardly shows any effect barely a change. This is a big deal So what does this all mean for our users? Right the chart shows a metric we believe reflects the value statement of a utility scale processor We didn't want to really look at just our best qubits We wanted to look at all our qubits in a chain With eagle you can go back two years ago. We started at about 10% error per layered gate in The last couple of years we've been able to take that number down to the two to three percent range But that's really not where we wanted to be coming up, right? With Heron We show a 3x improvement in the error per qubit for these long chains of qubits. This is going to be huge Now you'll see some difference in the blue and the gray dots That reflect a difference between the 80 qubit chain and the 100 qubit chain Our goal is to get both of them looking the same next to where the gray bar is and that's what they are in the process of improving in our next version Now let's look at performance Heron's performance again is markedly better than eagles that allows us to run a lot more gates enabled by the lower gate time You see some numbers there those are pretty good estimates But it gives us a very very clear runway to our goal of five thousand gates and beyond and you're going to see a lot Of that coming for the rest of the day So how do you put it all together, right? You have these nice numbers What does it mean for when the users are using these? Processors you'll see Heron is showing real performance improvements, but our users care You've already heard about the utility paper from Dario and Jay When we use similar techniques of error mitigation It shows a three to CX 6x improvement over the eagle we leveraged in that paper That is huge This improvement becomes even more noticeable for longer experiments Now the best part I'm excited to announce that our first client Heron system Called IBM Torino is now available as an exploratory device in our New York data center It has a long chain error rate of 100 qubits of less than point eight percent our best system ever We are super excited to how you use it Look, this is a great example of four years of research and engineering that will power the rest of our roadmap We strongly believe we have the right qubits and the right gates to make this a reality Thanks for listening and we're turn it over back to Jay Thanks, Rajiv. So the hardware is truly looking great Some of the gates are as good as three nights and you see our focus is focusing on getting the whole device to work Really large, but you're all here because we generally have this tradition of ticking off the roadmap. So to the roadmap Now we can tick off condor and Heron If I click the button and we can tick off Heron now, we're in this utility era The focus has got to be on performance stability and reliability Utility era means we need our software to support utility scale workloads and this means we've got a level-up kids kit I really excited to bring Jesse to the stage to talk you through what this means. Good morning, everyone I'm here to tell you about kids kid Kids kid has been the de facto standard for creating Optimizing and executing quantum circuits and operators. In fact, kissy is the preferred SDK by the vast majority of quantum programmers Kissy success is party because of its right ones and wrong everywhere model last supports most major quantum hardware vendors and architectures and Now we're proud to announce that next year kissy will take a major step forward with the release of kids get 1.0 This new release will offer even more improvements in performance stability and reliability From now forward we think of running a quantum application With a four-step pattern and now I want to tell you how kids can help you implement a lot pattern Step one is to map problems to quantum circuits and operators Kissy has reached two kids to efficiently construct these circuits and operators and Kissy 1.0 has added native support for dynamic circuits such as loops branches and classical expressions It has also made significant improvement on memory usage Reducing it by as much as 55% compared to a year ago Step two is to optimize the inputs The kissy transpiler is an industry leading tool for converting circuits to respect the constraints of the target hardware In addition, the kissy transpiler has a past manager That gives you the flexibility to further up customisely optimization. You want to apply to your circuits In kissy 1.0, we see a substantial improvement in both speed and quality for the transpiler The kissy transpiler is now 16 times faster than a year ago and can generate 23% fewer to cuba gates than another well-known toolkit We also started experimenting using AI to further improve the transpilation process This can be easily coupled with the existing kissy transpiler. Thanks to the flexibility of its past manager Using a reinforcement learning approach with we've seen a 20 to 50 percent improvement in both circuit depth and scene accounts Compared to the heuristic algorithms in kiss kid This new a the alpha release of this new AI transpiler is available today and Finally step three is to execute these optimized circuits in primitives the two primitives we have to we have today Simpler and estimator encapsulate the most common queries to a quantum processor In kissy 1.0. We treat their interfaces to make them simpler more consistent and more efficient In kids get wrong time. We now support three different execution modes single job batch and session Running a standalone job was the traditional way of executing quantum circuits on small devices And it can still be useful for testing and debugging Last year we introduced sessions which allowed iterative workloads to complete without queuing delays for each iteration a Single session, however may not be long enough for a real-life workload in this utility era So a session can soon be extended with multiple active windows to accommodate lengthy computations This year we also added batch Which allowed you to submit multiple non-interactive queries at once and now with batch execution mode Your workloads can run up to five times faster. Thanks to parallelism or threading Thank you everyone and now hand it back to Jay So there's a lot of updates coming to our software But again, we have to go to the roadmap what we promised on the roadmap was threaded primitives what we've delivered as a seed sweet Sweet of execution modes. We call them single job batch and and session and so with that we can take off execution modes So now that we've entered this new era People are using quantum computation for doing more tools with discovery This means we're seeing additional users with additional needs and requirements and it's my pleasure to bring Paul to the stage To talk about how we're supporting these new users Good morning everyone So as our hardware and software continue to improve they open up new opportunities for users to integrate quantum computing into their platform Having entered the air of utility has opened up a new set of users that we call quantum computational scientists Now a quantum computational scientist is not interested in the quantum hardware itself But rather in utilizing a machine to solve a distinct computational test These quantum computational scientists value performance compatibility and ease of use over everything else and Thinking of how to try to satisfy these needs when it comes to quantum algorithms and applications Applications has brought us to the idea of a kiss kit pattern A kiss kit pattern is the sequence of four steps that all quantum algorithms and applications must follow Okay in step one we generate quantum circuits and operators most likely from classical input data in step two We take those quantum objects and we optimize them for execution on quantum hardware Step three Executes our experiment using the kids get primitives that we heard about and finally in step four we post process The primitive output Now kids get patterns are more than just a collection of steps They provide a logical framework from which we can begin to explore writing algorithms and applications at scale right first when you think in terms of steps you highlight the foundational building blocks on which Quantum workflows are built in how to leverage those components to create a diverse set of quantum routines They also allow for containerization a kiss kit pattern formed an entire quantum program and we can begin to enhance pre-existing workflows with quantum components and Finally the allow for abstraction away from quantum circuits and operators alleviating in users from working at the level of quantum assembly code Okay, to see how this all works. Let's take a look at a pattern designed for quantum chemistry All right, so here it is you see again the four steps We're now each step is comprised of a collection of blocks where each block performs a singular task These blocks could be made by IBM third-party providers or even open source contributors if for example, we want to change how the circuit and Operator in this problem are constructed. It is a simple exchange of two blocks leaving the rest of the pattern unchanged We can take it a step further and we could say let's change the classical optimizer used in step 3 and that's also easy to do However in this particular example the optimizer itself is not a building block Okay, this is because kids kit patterns aims to leverage pre-existing software frameworks Such as the optimizers from sci-pi in this case and only build the core functionality needed for targeted quantum acceleration This targeted approach comes in handy when looking at pre-existing enterprise workflows We're only a small portion of the of the overall routine is amenable to a quantum solution Using the same inputs and outputs as the original workflow a kids kit pattern can be tailored to specific use cases in pipelines Streamlining the development and integration process All right, and finally kids kit patterns are designed to be used at scale They can be enhanced with information about resource management thus optimizing their execution a Pattern can be uploaded to a heterogeneous computing infrastructure such as quantum serverless allowing for streamlined execution All right, and finally our pattern can be run unattended and utilized by end users with no knowledge of quantum computing whatsoever So now this is a flavor of where we are going with kids get patterns and scalable algorithm and optimization design And we're going to start rolling these components out Beginning next year. However with quantum serverless already out in beta. You can begin to prepare for this today. So thank you very much Thanks Paul So as you see we're truly trying to make quantum frictionless On the roadmap we said we'd introduce prototype quantum functions And now you see we're starting to define that with what we mean by kids get patterns So to the roadmap to tick off the progress We now have a prototype way of creating what a Emission to be software functions of the future and quantum serverless So the utility paper has been the main focus of this talk so far But we made another announcement this year. We released a new error correcting code It's a new low density parody check code that we actually call the gross code This new code requires orders of magnitude fewer qubits than the surface code and it scales more efficiently But implementing this code requires new innovation We need a new type of coupler to connect qubits that are further apart on the chip. We call these c-couplers It requires more connectivity On our qubits degree six So here's our ultimate goal We need a system that has c-couplers to enable long-range quantum connections on the chip in order to implement the code We need l-couplers to create large-scale systems and transfer quantum information across the chips And we need m-couplers to transfer information short range between the chips to make bigger chips out of smaller chips I hope you've seen that we've already proved there's plenty of utility to be had before fault tolerance And now we have a code that rate that scales better than the surface code Which means error correction is closer than we thought But we don't currently have a path for error correction on our roadmap and this means we're gonna need a bigger roadmap Here's our new roadmap Let's take a tour Let's take a tour On our development roadmap it charts the client it charts the path forward for our client facing systems and services Here you see we are actually showing the number of gates our processes can run in a single circuit for the next five years So here we now show the number of gates that you can run on a single circuit rather than the number of qubits And for the next five years, we're going to be tackling exactly that quality as opposed to scale That is because we believe we've solved single tube single chip scaling with the condor We have the tools we need to build larger systems The bigger challenge is the tools we need for utility and to continue and to continue to improve the quality So we're putting that front and center Over the next five years, we're going to triple the number of gates our processes can can run What's more flamingo also includes that quantum communication and it will be able to bring at least seven Seven qpus connected all working together to create a system of thousands of qubits But then something big happens in 2029 We have styling you can see a stark jump all the way to a hundred million gates To me this is going to be a lot of algorithmic accuracy that we can code into our circuits Styling is going to be a big a really big deal. It's going to require a lot of new technologies And we're going to take all those technologies and put them into a deployable system Yes, that's error correction We're going to say that in 2029 we'll have the first system with error correction We're also going all the way to 2033 to show you our detailed plans for how we're going to scale to 1 billion gates But we've realized we need more than a development roadmap So we're introducing what we call the innovation roadmap At ibm as you know, we're committed to being transparent about our progress We want you to trust that we're making progress and you hope and we hope that you go on this journey with us So as I said before to achieve styling we're going to need to develop m-couplers c l-couplers and c-couplers We're going to build the l-couplers into flamingo We're going to build the m-couplers into crossbill and we're going to build the c-couplers into kukabara Combined with our software innovations. This is going to continue us along the path towards useful quantum computing We're actually putting a lot more in kukabara This includes the c-couplers the degree 6 couplings the software for decoding and the list just goes on and on So I hope you accept that rather than delivering kukabara in the plan 2025 We're moving it out to 2026 so we can incorporate all of these effects Innovations from the roadmap will bubble up into the development roadmap and eventually become available to our clients The couplers we build with flamingo crossbill and kukabara will let us introduce error correction with styling And with that the road is clear to extending quantum utility From our users we've learned that a work we've learned a lot about the workloads people want to run And we thank you for this We now that running a single we now know that running a single circuit is not enough You want to run multiple in parallel and with concurrent classical computations This is the quantum centric supercomputing that dario mentioned in his talk It is driving the vision behind all the updates you saw today So just to do a recap We have the ibm one. We have the ibm quantum system two to me. It looks amazing It's modular and it'll keep scaling us to the future and the first one already has three herons inside it Heron our most prefer to heron our most performant system is already making utility workloads run five times better And I can't wait to you see those results With condor we've solved single qubit scaling For with support for parallelization with the execution modes batch and iterative workloads are going to run faster Five we've simplified quantum algorithms and introduced this concept called kiskit patterns Six we've created quantum serverless and it's in beta This means it's a much more stable and i'm really looking forward to you seeing it But all of these were on our roadmap I hope you also like the additions that were not on our roadmap that we've revealed to you The first being kiskit 1.0 is going to become kiskit one. Sorry kiskit is going to become kiskit 1.0 And it'll be fast and stable As daria mentioned, it's been a wild year in AI and we're bringing the full force of AI to simplify how quantum computers will be run And we're introducing ways that we can use Natural language to create quantum code to me. This is a big deal Nine we've actually introduced and showing how we can use AI to power coming up with better circuits And this will be rolled out as a transpiler service in alpha. You can start using it now And finally the 10th announcement is that we now have a 10 year roadmap For all of those of all you for all of you that know how much we take the roadmap seriously putting a 10 year roadmap Is a big deal and putting error correction on it is our commitment to how we're going to be useful quantum computing to the world And with that I would like to and we're saying we're in the era of quantum utility Just like we said back in 2021 2023 would be a big year We've a clear detailed roadmap for scaling our quantum computing We've hit all our milestones and now we have systems capable of exploring problems beyond brute force classical computing Now I hope you enjoy the rest of the sessions today Where you'll see a deep dive on the things I talked about and much much much more The era of quantum utility is here And I hope you will come along with us on this journey Thank you