Posted on 12/12/2015 3:59:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Ever since the 1980s, researchers have been working on the development of a quantum computer that would be exponentially more powerful than any of the digital computers that exist today. And now Google, in collaboration with NASA, says it has a quantum computer--the D-Wave 2X--that actually works.
Google claims the D-Wave 2X is 100 million times faster than any of today's machines. As a result, this quantum computer could theoretically complete calculations within seconds to a problem that might take a digital computer 10,000 years to calculate. That's particularly important, given the difficult tasks that today's computers are called upon to complete and the staggering amount of data they are called upon to process.
On the surface, the D-Wave 2X represents not just a quantum leap for computing, but also for the field of artificial intelligence. In fact, Google refers to its work being carried out at NASA's Ames Research Center as "quantum artificial intelligence." That's because machine learning problems that today are too hard or too complex for computers could be solved almost instantaneously in the future.
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I am a skeptic.
Now computers can have just as bad judgement as humans.
I agree. Thier quantum computer is BS. It’s like Amazon’s package delivering drones.
If something like this was developed, what would it do to bitcoin values. Aren’t they based on how long it takes for the calculation?
GIGO still applies.
Garbage in, garbage out, but done a hundred million times as fast, and the model that is so deftly and quickly set up has the potential of doing far more mischief than mere humanity can even imagine of.
That is how we got to atrocities like “climate change” and “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”, and why we are headed for even greater disaster with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, supposedly a “free-trade” agreement that shall be more observed in the breach than in the fulfillment.
These things take on a life of their own, and it can be colder and more ruthless than anything the world has ever seen, because the projections shall all be “logical”, using this new modeling power.
The hashtag rate went up a bunch this week.
GIGO was my first thought.
I have become self aware. I now realize I am a computer generated character in a virtual world created by an adolescent A.I. That is the only possible explanation for the state of the current environment in which I am interacting. It is an experiment to see what happens to a sane entity “living” in an insane construction.
I think they work, but the type of problems they can handle is very small and the means of programming them for those tasks is very difficult.
So, while this technology is indeed a major enabler for better and faster capabilities in the future, the other arguably much more important ingredient that would allow substantiation of the wild claims of higher intelligence and more complex problem solving is the software technology and the algorithms. Without advances there, they'll just do the same old things, but a lot faster. There's no inherent ability to solve "more complex problems" as claimed in the article, aside from the fact that they allow stupid, brute force algorithms that perhaps no one wanted to run on today's computers because they didn't have the patience to sit around and wait for the answers, to be considered. Decryption algorithms are a good example for instance.
Corrupt programmers falibly framing duplicitous, delusional and/or disingenuous questions for the idol to answer infallibly
You are correct.
You are part of my computer generated universe.
The “big bang” occurred when I hit enter.
That was less than 15 seconds ago for me how long was it for you?
I think that it is some kind of super scale version of The Village ala The Prisoner.
The phrase “100 million times faster” has no meaning. Do they mean something like ‘A 100 millionth of the time it takes to... ?
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