Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
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Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

seems big

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Jesus Christ I hate Google so fucking much

    Can they not just present a finding without the most extreme marketing slant? How am I expected to believe this won’t be another case of gEMiNi

    Lmao they even gave it an anthropomorphic name, can’t put my hate for this shit into words

  • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    17 hours ago

    the more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes.

    kjj what a phrase

    It 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.

    source: his ass

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      God, this is basically the same as those 19th century flim-flam men

      I, Phineas Q. Swenson, have combed the globe and brought you wonders and panaceas! For example, from the mysterious far away Eastern Nation of Austria, I bring you the Curative Galvanic Belt! It is guaranteed to restore your vigor, revitalize your vim, and restore your moral and physical pulchritudinous! That's right, for the low price of two, that's right, two American dollars, you too can experience the power of Zeus' lightning, in your trousers!

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    16 hours ago

    This includes helping us discover new medicines, designing more efficient batteries for electric cars, and accelerating progress in fusion and new energy alternatives. Many of these future game-changing applications won’t be feasible on classical computers; they’re waiting to be unlocked with quantum computing.

    Indistinguishable from the OpenAI grift and the AI grift in general. Tendency for the rate of profit to fall can totally be defeated by investing in the black hole of compute with no real goal in sight.

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

    Does anyone know how quantum computing works? The way I understand it it’s like using the superpositioning of electrons as transitors? How the fuck does that work?

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      AFAIK it uses spheres instead of positive and negative binary magnets. So the direction the electron hits the sphere changes what the data is. Instead of having only 1s and 0s (representing positive and negative charges), you have 1 through 360.

      The hard part has been the math. Humans like to do things one at a time when it comes to numbers. In “1+2+5” you add 1 and 2 together, then 3 and 5. This is easy to represent in binary. But when you can do hundreds of things simultaneously? Our brains don’t work that way and it’s difficult coming up with programming languages for that type of computing. On quantum computers, you’re basically stuck programming everything in the equivalent to hexadecimal, rather than something like Python or C.

      I could also be talking out my ass because this was explained to me like 20 years ago in high school programming when I was jacked up on Mountain Dew.

  • OnlineBrainworms [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    Can this thing predict the future?

    As soon as the billionaires have a tool like that in their hands we are doomed forever. And I assume they will eventually have something that can do a good enough job of it that they will be able to use it to remain in control forever. Maybe they already do? They surely wouldn’t tell us.

    Cool. Cool.

    doomer a-guy