Quantum systems operate at extremely low temperatures. On the other hand, living systems, such as the human body, are warm and full of unpredictable events.

A four-year plan IBM now describing its first error-resistant quantum compute system Company is moving past focus on qubits, shifting to functional compute units.

The computer, called IBM Quantum Starling, will be housed in its Poughkeepsie, N.Y., center and have 20,000 times the computational power of today’s quantum computers, the tech giant said.