QuoteIt measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.…QuoteSignificantly, Willow is claimed to be far less prone to error than previous versions and could swell the potential of the already fast-developing field of artificial intelligence.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/09/google-unveils-mindboggling-quantum-computing-chip?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-5
It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.
Significantly, Willow is claimed to be far less prone to error than previous versions and could swell the potential of the already fast-developing field of artificial intelligence.
Quote from: Star One on 12/09/2024 04:22 pmQuoteIt measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.…QuoteSignificantly, Willow is claimed to be far less prone to error than previous versions and could swell the potential of the already fast-developing field of artificial intelligence.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/09/google-unveils-mindboggling-quantum-computing-chip?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-553 qubits, (which I had to go to Reuters to find).It's an improvement, but still not able to outpace classical computers.The inflection point is on the order of 64-96 qubits.It's the projected slope of improvement that is key. If they hit the top of the logistics s-curve soon, it'll prove to be a useless technology. If they can steadily grow to 1000 qubits, then they'll have something amazing.
This seems to have baffled those in the industry.QuoteAlthough quantum computers theoretically have the potential to threaten national security by breaking encryption techniques, even the most advanced quantum computers currently in public existence are too small and too error-prone to achieve this, rendering the bans seemingly pointless.
Although quantum computers theoretically have the potential to threaten national security by breaking encryption techniques, even the most advanced quantum computers currently in public existence are too small and too error-prone to achieve this, rendering the bans seemingly pointless.
That may seem like a strange thing to say, but it is made necessary by a strange claim tucked away in Google's announcement. According to Neven, the fact that the computer can perform such a calculation "lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."
While some, including Max Tegmark, have suggested that working quantum computers would prove the existence of the multiverse, this is really jumping the gun. Quantum computers rely on quantum mechanics, and not any specific interpretation of it, as far as we have evidence. They work under the Copenhagen interpretation, and are possible in hidden variable theories too. Though what Google has done with quantum computers is pretty neat, it is far from practical, and by no means proof that it performed calculations across many, many universes.
Google apparently made the claim that their new quantum chip carried out its calculations across many universes.
China claims to have cracked RSA2048 with quantum algorithms:
Engineers are developing noninvasive terahertz scanners that lock onto microtubule resonances through the skull, hoping to watch consciousness flicker on and off during sleep and surgery.Early prototypes detect subtle electromagnetic signatures that vanish when animals go under anaesthetic and rebound on waking.If future trials map those signatures to perception, therapies might follow. Stabilizing microtubules could ease anesthesia in chemotherapy patients or counteract disorders of awareness.Reversible entanglement clues might even inspire brainwide quantum networks that are faster than today’s silicon.For now, the universewide consciousness model remains a daring explanation rather than proven fact. Still, each year brings fresh data that chip away at the classical firewall between mind and matter, and the conversation is shifting from “if” to “how.”
This is more of an old saw, barely a hypothesis, than a real theory. The way it’s described here borders on pseudoscience.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 06/27/2025 03:11 pmThis is more of an old saw, barely a hypothesis, than a real theory. The way it’s described here borders on pseudoscience.Ironically, Roger Penrose argued in 1994 that AI could never create human consciousness because the human brain used quantum effects which could never be implemented in computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose#ConsciousnessThe Extropians and other SI investigators rejected the conclusion, not because the brain might be using quantum effects, but because there are likely to be many ways to implement SI.
