Google 'Willow' quantum chip has solved a problem the best supercomputer would have taken a quadrillion times the age of the universe to crack

Science Live ^ | 12/9/2024 | Keumars Afifi-Sabet

[sopo]

The breakthrough — achieving this "below threshold" milestone — means that errors in a quantum computer will reduce exponentially as you add more physical qubits. It charts a path for scaling up quantum machines in the future.

The technology relies on logical qubits. This is a qubit encoded using a collection of physical qubits in a lattice formation. All the physical qubits in a single logical qubit share the same data, meaning if any qubits fail, calculations continue because the information can still be found within the logical qubit.

[sopo]

When I first tried to post this, I thought I was intellectually equipped to post it , but not to comment on it, The moderator informs me I wasn't so much as intellectually equipped to post it. Anyway, here it is for those who are intellectually equipped but didn't have a chance to read Nature yeasterday

[Political Junkie Too]

"What's a qubit?"

-PJ

[caver]

That leaves me out.

[Revel]

Am I supposed to get all excited when I hear that things like AI will get way more powerful.

[suasponte137]

“What’s a qubit?”

It was a video game from the 80’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q*bert

[Political Junkie Too]

"Riiiight..."

-PJ

[CodeToad]

In other words, we can get to the wrong answers faster than ever! *yay*

AI: None of us are as dumb as all of us.

[farmguy]

So, what was the answer to the problem it solved?

[CodeToad]

“How long can you tread water?”

[milagro]

LOL!!

[HYPOCRACY]

How long is a piece of string?

[House Atreides]

“The Trouble With Qubits” should have been a Star Trek episode.

[sopo]

A qubit, or quantum bit, is the basic unit of information used to encode data in quantum computing and can be best understood as the quantum equivalent of the traditional bit used by classical computers to encode information in binary.

The term “qubit” is attributed to American theoretical physicist Benjamin Schumacher.https://www.ibm.com/topics/qubit

Schumacher has a course on Quantum mechanics on the Great Courses, I heard him claim credit for this term and it turns out he wasn’t just tooting his own horn. Anyway, Jay Valentine who has election integrity process claims to use “fractal computing and quantum computing, “ which has made a lot of people skeptical. I guess this will help with his procedures if ordinary people ever get a chance to use it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

“What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”

[milagro]

8+)!

[Vermont Lt]

AI can only regurgitate what its fed.

At this stage, it is a really good database with some linguistic skills.

It isn’t “thinking.”

But then again, every human carries a supercomputer on their shoulders...and many of them don’t “think” much either.

[9YearLurker]

I don’t buy it.

[sopo]

well, I missed the sarcasm, lol ( actually , wincing in pain)

[cgbg]

At this point AI can spew out leftist propaganda faster than any human.

Lol.

[HombreSecreto]

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