Seems like an understated breakthrough and a giant leap forward in scary computer calculating power. Microsoft creates chip it says shows quantum computers are 'years, not decades' away Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Wednesday unveiled a new chip that it said showed quantum computing is "years, not decades" away, joining Google and IBM in predicting that a fundamental change in computing technology is much closer than recently believed. Quantum computing holds the promise of carrying out calculations that would take today's systems millions of years and could unlock discoveries in medicine, chemistry and many other fields where near-infinite seas of possible combinations of molecules confound classical computers.
Damn, AI generated porn and memes are about to get really good. As for the other uses, I'll believe it when it see it.
How the heck can we determine that a calculation would take millions of years to solve? Perhaps a rouge AI system just made that shtuff up. Computers boggle my mind. Hell, calculators boggle my feeble mind.
yep but still closer to a decade away to cracking current encryption. New encryption algorithms will be in place prior to that.
I could be completely wrong, but I believe it's something along the lines of just being able to knock out infinite possibilities in a fraction of the time. For example, we may have something today where we want to see what happens if we inject varying amounts of potassium in varying numbers of human cells at various temperatures. Our current computing would take years to run through every possible combination of these 3 variables. Whereas quantum computing would be able to run through this much quicker. Again. I could be way off.
Seems like would be a boon for AI and machine learning, and as you noted this will bring real advancements to medical treatments and other discoveries (perhaps the creation of new theoretical materials like … transparent steel).
By this definition, we've had quantum memory chips in production since the invention of RDRAM 20 years ago. Using electron "spin" to manage states onboard a chip is nothing new. A lot of hype and not a lot of substance here. We used to double our computing power every couple of years, and RSA encryption handled it by adding a few bits here and there. When all is said and done, the anomaly on the computing power timeline is not the coming leap forward, but the flat line we have been stuck on for the last decade or so.
