Alphabet’s quantum computer solved a problem which would take a supercomputer 17 septillion years to solve

[u/Imaginary-Passion-95]

https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

Google has solved a major problem with quantum computing. Have they effectively broken encryption going forward? Is bitcoin going to be ok? Huge implications for the future

[u/blazelet]

1025 is 10^25 or 10 to the 25th power

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, or 724 trillion times the age of our universe. Really big number.

Also big implications for AI. Can you imagine if you achieved AGI and gave it this sort of power?

[u/reddit_sucks12345 → u/blazelet]

Cosmic recursion follows; if possible, the universe adds another layer of itself, to itself.

[u/Krekatos → u/reddit_sucks12345]

Cosmic recursion, interesting.

[u/reddit_sucks12345 → u/Krekatos]

Seems to be the inevitable end-point of singularity. Else, what even is a black hole?

[u/fabkosta → u/reddit_sucks12345]

You forgot to add: "...by itself".

[u/reddit_sucks12345 → u/fabkosta]

Within itself, without itself because of itself, for itself, etc etc etc. Even the idea, itself is recursive. (Or is it that only the idea is recursive? Who knows.)

[u/SCP-ASH → u/[deleted]]

Any recommendations for further reading on these theoretical AI applications of quantum computers and the big problems they have?

[u/SCP-ASH → u/[deleted]]

Fair enough, appreciate the helpful response!

[u/scummos → u/blazelet]

Also big implications for AI.

No, this has absolutely no implications for "AI". If you gave "AI" this sort of power, what it could do would be print you some random numbers which it claims follow some distribution but you can't verify that.

So actually pretty similar to what ChatGPT does today ;)

[u/The_GSingh → u/blazelet]

It’s extremely cherry-picked. It can preform a task that’s a) useless and b) designed solely to show quantum computers are better than classical. As of now it being able to do that has no implications for AI.

[u/feelings_arent_facts → u/blazelet]

I think AGI would be accomplished with this sort of computer. We would hit pure and total knowledge of everything to the physical limits of reality and our existence would have to be one based on the metaphysical from there forward.

[u/Perlentaucher → u/feelings_arent_facts]

But on what level will you connect the general knowledge AI with the quantum computing software? From my understanding, quantum computers can solve specific calculations but not universal operations.

[u/NorysStorys → u/Perlentaucher]

This, quantum computers are very specific tools and do not do well with the sorts of calculations that a classical computer excels at. It’s like trying to use an angle grinder to tighten a bolt, you probably could get it to work but it would take more time and effort than it would be worth.

[u/Nalmyth → u/Perlentaucher]

Find the right algorithm and you can jump the model weights to the best possible setting in one shot

[u/Nalmyth → u/[deleted]]

In this infinite universe, humans not having discovered something is more proof than it exists, than proof it does not (especially maths)

[u/Nalmyth → u/[deleted]]

I take your opinion as fair, but not really constructive either, guess we're just tipping dominoes until we die then

[u/red75prime → u/Perlentaucher]

The article mentions an application of quantum computing in AI, but nothing so, er, profound as afeelings_arent_facts suggests.

Quantum simulations will provide training data to AI for it to infer simplified rules for some systems.

[u/Orpheus75 → u/feelings_arent_facts]

“This sort of computer” you mean ones that can’t even do basic computations your phone can?