Google says they’ve solved a quantum computing hurdle

[IGotWorms 4,057]

And apparently it means there are multiple universes because the speed with which it computes could not be possible otherwise

 

Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what really caught the tech industry’s attention was an even wilder claim tucked into the blog post about the chip.

Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.

Ergo the chip’s performance indicates that parallel universes exist and “we live in a multiverse.” 

Here’s the passage: 

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. 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.

This drop-the-mic moment on the nature of reality was met with skepticism by some, but, surprisingly, others on the internet who profess to understand these things argued that Nevan’s conclusionswere more than plausible. The multiverse, while stuff of science fiction, is also an area of serious study by the founders of quantum physics.

The skeptics, however, point out that the performance claims are based on the benchmark that Google itself created some years ago to measure quantum performance. That alone doesn’t prove that parallel versions of you aren’t running around in other universes — just where the underlying measuring stick came from.

 

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/google-says-its-new-quantum-chip-indicates-that-multiple-universes-exist/

[posty 2,609]

Damn Loki…

[IGotWorms 4,057]

2 minutes ago, posty said:

Damn Loki…

No, it’s called Willow

[posty 2,609]

1 minute ago, IGotWorms said:

No, it’s called Willow

So it’s Warwick Davis’s fault?

[IGotWorms 4,057]

1 minute ago, posty said:

So it’s Warwick Davis’s fault?

The dwarf guy? Probably 

[posty 2,609]

Just now, IGotWorms said:

The dwarf guy? Probably 

Yup…  LOL

[thegeneral 2,883]

I guess “password123” isn’t going to cut it anymore for my various accounts. Thanks Google.

[IGotWorms 4,057]

1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

I guess “password123” isn’t going to cut it anymore for my various accounts. Thanks Google.

Just put an exclamation point at the end

[posty 2,609]

1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

I guess “password123” isn’t going to cut it anymore for my various accounts. Thanks Google.

Add the number four at the end, then you will just fine…

[thegeneral 2,883]

1 minute ago, IGotWorms said:

Just put an exclamation point at the end

 

1 minute ago, posty said:

Add the number four at the end, then you will just fine…

Will do both. Will be good until Willow 2!

[posty 2,609]

8 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

 

Will do both. Will be good until Willow 2!

Good thinking…

[Thornton Melon 603]

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It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. 

Maybe it just made a lucky guess 

[frank 2,276]

28 minutes ago, posty said:

Add the number four at the end, then you will just fine…

That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.