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Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.
  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    16 days ago

    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.

    The linked HackerNews thread speculates that the relevant comment was tongue-in-cheek.

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    16 days ago

    Google also said they wouldn’t kill Stadia, a month before they killed Stadia. Maybe it still lives in another universe.

  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comEnglish
    14·
    16 days ago

    This terrible headline keeps going…

    Tldr; Completely misleading. Someone said it must use peocessing power from other universes because they are amazed by some of the results - not that anything proves anything related to a multiverse.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Exactly. There isn’t some finite limit on processing power per universe AFAIK, that would be absurd.

      There’s a good chance parallel universes exist, but this has chip has nothing to do with that.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
    131·
    16 days ago

    Google also says their AI is self-aware, has feelings, wants to marry the dev who blurted that out, etc…

  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    Which is more likely: that Google’s benchmarking system is wrong, or that quantum computing somehow takes place across hereto unprovable alternate realities?

    I know which one I would pick.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    81·
    16 days ago

    So their processor is so powerful it somehow reaches out to another universe to use power for computation functions…? How do you even prove something like this?

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      16 days ago

      My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.