Quantum Computer Race

[bigblueinsanity]

So far as I can tell, there is nothing unusual about AI other than the insane hype about how it is going to change the human condition overnight. It hasn't. At least not yet...

...and when the sales pitch was that AI was going to have logarithmic effect where the tech gets so much better over shockingly small periods of time that humans can't compete, I think we've had enough time now to know that just simply isn't going to happen given the current level of the tech that has been released to the public.

I think it is quite likely that you've naively believed overhyped sales pitches and this is nothing more than the inevitable incremental improvement in technology that has always been a net boon to human prosperity and happiness.

I'm currently in the middle of moving. If Elon's got a GD robot that can carry boxes upstairs, replace mismatched electrical outlets, and listen to my wife cry because she's so anxious that she's convinced herself that the Swiss Coffee color paint she picked out doesn't actually seem as swiss or as coffee as she expected when it went on the walls, I hope he puts the damn thing on the market this week because I'm a buyer.

You aren't wrong on it not being ready. Problem is the dummies running these companies lack of the technical knowledge to understand that. They get sold big time and its happening in short order.

Then you know these people will never admit their mistakes. Instead what they do is hire/rehire a handful of the people to fill in the data gaps.

Of course thats stupid. Im not arguing that. Im just telling you its happening anyway because the ceos of these companies are too stupid to recognize they don't know what they don't know.

 

[CondorCat]

Advancement in quantum computing is facing new challenges in error correction as the number of qubits increases. IBM/Google are working on problems solving decoherence and crosstalk between superposition states. It's going to take time and a lot of money before quantum computing reaches commercial viability.

 

[ukalumni00]

As the old saying goes, “I have a bad feeling about this..”.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-stock-pops-as-company-unveils-new-quantum-computing-chip-170103666.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJB2LNY2eCOzOvPDSHiv2rVpoPjnSi_FfX-ront_f9Pds5dfZgeuc86Q92-N1M6G8P7b_5EWPsyUPReaXiE5yv4hGRW4YQdhkz_DL-rOpU-iHjBUQbt0Uf0NtlLDJIIrSSqp0DfSBscVvzLXKs9nyRssqG9pWyyXLOBcVdX-ldEi

 

[wildcatwelder]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-stock-pops-as-company-unveils-new-quantum-computing-chip-170103666.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJB2LNY2eCOzOvPDSHiv2rVpoPjnSi_FfX-ront_f9Pds5dfZgeuc86Q92-N1M6G8P7b_5EWPsyUPReaXiE5yv4hGRW4YQdhkz_DL-rOpU-iHjBUQbt0Uf0NtlLDJIIrSSqp0DfSBscVvzLXKs9nyRssqG9pWyyXLOBcVdX-ldEi

From the article: Google said Monday in a blog post that a mathematical equation that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the whole history of the universe — 10 septillion years — to solve takes only five minutes using a quantum computer powered by its new chip, Willow.

Incredible, just incredible.

 

[HymanKaplan]

You all realize of course, that the more we study quantum mechanics, the more it looks like reality as we (you, me, everyone) know it, is all a mirage. A simulation that is being RUN by quantum computing, and that the discovery of entanglement/quantum mechanics is, to simplify things; analogous to taking the red pill.

I present the above as an option, but one that is gaining a lot of momentum amongst physicists. I'm not even kidding, it's true.

 

[JumperJack]

From the article: Google said Monday in a blog post that a mathematical equation that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the whole history of the universe — 10 septillion years — to solve takes only five minutes using a quantum computer powered by its new chip, Willow.

Incredible, just incredible.

I would use the word “dangerous”. Extremely.

 

[FirewithFire]

You all realize of course, that the more we study quantum mechanics, the more it looks like reality as we (you, me, everyone) know it, is all a mirage. A simulation that is being RUN by quantum computing, and that the discovery of entanglement/quantum mechanics is, to simplify things; analogous to taking the red pill.

I present the above as an option, but one that is gaining a lot of momentum amongst physicists. I'm not even kidding, it's true.

Evidently Google's new chip shares your views.

Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google's made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what really caught the tech industry's attention was an even wilder claim tucked into the blog post about the chip.

Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.

Ergo the chip's performance indicates that parallel universes exist and "we live in a multiverse."

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/google-says-quantum-chip-indicates-192059739.html

 

[HymanKaplan]

NASA shut THEIR quantum computer down, essentially because they were scared of it.

Now, I can't get the image of some janitor, in a building somewhere, on accidnet, hitting the power button, and poof...

What a way for all of us to go out. LOL

And, as a final insult, it iwll happen FOUR SECONDs after the Bengals took a knee with FIVE seconds left while leading in the Super Bowl...

 

[d2atTech]

From the article: Google said Monday in a blog post that a mathematical equation that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the whole history of the universe — 10 septillion years — to solve takes only five minutes using a quantum computer powered by its new chip, Willow.

Incredible, just incredible.

@wildcatwelder thank you for linking to this. i had read the news about this a couple days ago (many of my closest friends have worked on the over the past decade). step three in their process (logic gates), is a significant hurdle. quantum logic isn't the same as boolean logic, and getting the quantum experiment setup often takes more effort than solving the problem classically (any type of NP-hard or NP complete problem, as an example).

separately, i worry a lot about coherence times with these types of experiments. For what it's worth, the multiverse hypothesis is a weird thought, but would break a fair number of entropy and energy conservation concepts that have been experimentally validated many times over. more likely that there are more spatial dimensions. i am working on proving this, will take me another ~10 - 15 years.

 

[wildcatwelder]

@wildcatwelder thank you for linking to this. i had read the news about this a couple days ago (many of my closest friends have worked on the over the past decade). step three in their process (logic gates), is a significant hurdle. quantum logic isn't the same as boolean logic, and getting the quantum experiment setup often takes more effort than solving the problem classically (any type of NP-hard or NP complete problem, as an example).

separately, i worry a lot about coherence times with these types of experiments. For what it's worth, the multiverse hypothesis is a weird thought, but would break a fair number of entropy and energy conservation concepts that have been experimentally validated many times over. more likely that there are more spatial dimensions. i am working on proving this, will take me another ~10 - 15 years.

I've read a bit on this topic, and fully admit I understand only part of it, but I would like to ask you what your thoughts are on the multiverse hypothesis, if you wouldn't mind please. From what I understand, the other MV's are where the extra energy needed for the additional computing power must come from, correct? Is the MV hypothesis the strongest candidate for the theory? I've always found this very interesting and look forward to hopefully learning more about it going forward.

Thanks in advance, much appreciated.

 

[HymanKaplan]

I believe that Quantum Computing will fail, succeed, and a mixture of both simultaneously. LOL

 

[anonymous_2011]

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