Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
AI summary of the linked articleGoogle announced Willow, its latest quantum chip, which its post says demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer. Willow reduced errors exponentially as qubits were scaled up across 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 grids, cutting the error rate in half each time, a result the article calls "below threshold" and says was published today in Nature. On the random circuit sampling benchmark, the article says Willow completed a computation in under five minutes that it estimates would take one of today's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years. |
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5 comments ministryofmemes.ethSubmitter Mind-blowing bit: "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 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" Would be interesting to learn how versatile it is. Is it more adopted to one use case or could it in the clos3 future eg break SHA256  This stuff is gonna have a serious marketing problem. I didn‘t understand anything the guy said there Lol, couldn't they just use Gemini and ask it to ELI5 this video before they share it. Here's Vitalik's take on quantum computing & its potential impact on crypto: |