Learning Notebook - David Rostcheck

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Notes	A group of physicists wants to use artificial intelligence to prove that reality doesn’t exist. They want to do this by running an artificial general intelligence as an observer on a quantum computer. I wish this was a joke. But I’m afraid it’s not.
Personal Notes	This idea stems from the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, which raises questions about the nature of measurements and their occurrence. Some physicists propose that measurements aren't physical processes, leading to thought experiments like Wigner's Friend, which challenge our understanding of reality. The latest development in this line of thought involves using AI to play the role of the friends in laboratories, potentially leading to the conclusion that there is no external world independent of us. However, the speaker argues against this notion, stating that measurements can be made without intelligence and that the concept of a measurement collapsing a superposition is crucial for the measurement to have meaning. The speaker also emphasizes the significance of creating larger quantum systems to test which configurations can and cannot destroy superpositions, which could potentially help solve the measurement problem.
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