Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, says Google's new Willow quantum chip is so fast it may be borrowing computational power from other universes in the multiverse. - eviltoast
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.

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.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Still, humanity doesn’t understand the quantum world yet

    Eh, we understand it pretty well. We don’t understand why it is, or how it meshes with general relativity, but quantum mechanics is a well established field at this point.