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

[Tai_Chung]

How fast can it run the government’s COBOL code?

[Hebrews 11:6]

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.

Numerous factors besides the obvious geopolitical are converging to climax in the fulfillment of the biblical Last Day prophecies; among them are AI and computational capacity mounting a Babelesque challenge: ""If...they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." Genesis 11:6

[fuzzylogic]

To my understanding, it’s great for *certain* tasks, not others. We’ll have to see...

That said, it has been claimed that it isn’t good for cracking something like blockchain and, along with it, Bitcoin.

I’d really like to see that confirmed.

[chickenlips]

Everyone should take a close look at that chip so they will know what their master is going to look like.

Fortunately it was developed by Google so we know it will only be used for good. /s

[Angelino97]

By the time this chip is released, Windows and other apps will incorporate enough bloatware to make this chip run even slower that today’s machines.

[TheConservator]

“I for one welcome our new electronic overlords!”

Kent Brockman

[TheThirdRuffian]

Especially with evil Google thugs doing the programming.

[sevlex]

So much for strong passwords.

[Sarcazmo]

Oh, great!

With power like that maybe a Government computer could run normally.

[Carry_Okie]

By leveraging quantum algorithms, AI systems could access training data beyond the reach of classical machines, optimize learning architectures, and model phenomena influenced by quantum effects. This synergy could unlock solutions to challenges ranging from efficient resource allocation to climate change mitigation.

Thus illustrating the catastrophic damage any superior system could inflict when empowered with a faulty premise.

[Sparticus]

My first question is how fast can it factor large primes? Kiss your 256 bit encryption goodbye if it can do that task at those kinds of speeds. The Feds have been intercepting and storing all the encrypted and VPN traffic they can for a long time for the eventuality of a break through of this type.

All your data traffic are belong to us.

[yesthatjallen]

It will do nothing to make your computer faster.

[Sparticus]

Just did a little research and no, they do not seem to be anywhere near close to having the compute performance needed to attack current cryptographic techniques with even today’s or the near future’s best quantum computers.

[Sgt_Schultze]

This chip won’t truly reach its potential until the porn guys adopt it for their industry.

[6ppc]

Bkmk

[Organic Panic]

AND it’ll be used for porn and government spying.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

mostly porn

[pa_dweller]

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

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Yep. In the neighborhood of 170,000 shit-tons.

[sethro]

You guys in this thread are giving me an ab workout! Ha ha ha Whew...

I need to catch my breath for a qubit.

[SamAdams76]

In just another 10 years, there will be a new chip a trillion times more powerful than even this new quantum chip.

Yes, we are screwed as a human species.

The robots, equipped with AI, are going to take total control and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

They may let us live, or they may not. It will soon be up to them.