Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years

harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Technology@beehaw.org – 78 points – Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years
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Is it akin to the revolutionary code-breaking system from Digital Fortress called TRANSLTR?

I hope it won't.

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Let it fold proteins and do space traveling calculations. Smashing tech is very Luditte

As a 70-qubit quantum computer, it's not going to be doing many helpful calculations. The benchmark used is random circuit sampling, which is doing a bunch of random quantum operations, and then reading the result, and it is compared to a supercomputer simulating the various random operations. This algorithm isn't useful outside of benchmarking.

This also makes Sycamore a particularly ineffective "weapon" considering that we don't really use encryption that's less than 1024 bits, which is well outside of the capability of our current quantum computers.

As a 70-qubit quantum computer

Its cool to see that lemmy/kbin have such a diverse user base

I am a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. I am trained on a massive amount of text data, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions.

I was expecting you to call yourself a sentient multi-zettaflop quantum frame or something.

You trust Google to use quantum tech for purely scientific pursuits?

I don't immediately distrust technology, like a moron.

Keep it civil.

My distrust is in Google, not technology.

I mean, there’s not much you can currently do on quantum computers. It’s basically either cracking encryptions or folding proteins at this point.

And quantum-proof encryption already exists.

(I’m oversimplifying, but quantum computer isn’t a faster computer. It’s just one that can solve a really narrow problem set faster. But you need a task that’s basically find 1 random correct answer out of these lots of possibilities. It won’t run Crysis. )