Google’s new quantum chip is 1.05 million septillion times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers

The Brighter Side of News ^ | 12 December 2024 | Joseph Shavit

[ShadowAce]

Thanks to Red Badger for the link to the article!

[ShadowAce]

[Disambiguator]

You want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.

[Larry Lucido]

Almost sounds like something Captain Hyperbole would say

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Gamers rejoice.

[Billthedrill]

A million septillions...that’s a lot, isn’t it?

[GOPJ]

... Willow is a quantum computing chip capable of performing a task in 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete.

It'll save energy but how will it effect bitcoin?

[Red Badger]

It will still take Windows 5 minutes to boot up................

[wally_bert]

Lotus Notes will make it crawl.

[GOPJ]

... Willow is a quantum computing chip capable of performing a task in 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete.

It'll save energy but how will it effect bitcoin?

[econjack]

Actually, I think it’s 1,049.999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,968 times faster, but I could be wrong.

[refreshed]

Great! Will it fit in my desktop?

[ckilmer]

This won’t be ready for prime time for another 5 years. This model is more like a proof of concept model

So until this chip comes on the scene the stare of play willl be Nvidia GPU ‘s powering giant super computers like musks collossus.

[ckilmer]

This won’t be ready for prime time for another 5 years. This model is more like a proof of concept model

So until this chip comes on the scene the stare of play willl be Nvidia GPU ‘s powering giant super computers like musks collossus.

[blackdog]

So how much faster does it weld, fit pipes, wire a building, fix the leaking roof, pump out the septic tank clog, cut the grass, or repair a broken gas line?

Otherwise it's purpose is to spy on my data to sell boner pills and run algorithms to sell me Buffalo Wings .0037 seconds faster than the competition boner pills and Buffalo wings retailers.

Speed Kills. Always has. Always will.

[sphinx]

Has China stolen it yet? Or has Biden sold it to China yet?

[grey_whiskers]

How useful is Hartree-Fock? It leaves out configuration interaction.

And how useful is ordinary electronic structure anyway, you can use density functional theory?

[Crusher138]

Seriously, if this can be made at all practical, it will have a weird form of sentience.

We may not consider it “true” sentience, but it will be able to fake it to such a degree that the difference will be irrelevant.

This is not good.

[Vaduz]

And come with a 404 code and a blue screen.

[katana]

We may soon need to find our own Serena Butler (obscure Dune reference).