This breakthrough is from a corporation, not a government. Previous innovation, such as ARPANET, came from such sources. It is likely that the priorities will be different. The sudden increase in speed implies the possibility of intermediate steps. As IBM reminded everyone after Google’s announcement, they too have a 53 qubit machine, albeit one that runs much slower and steadier. Google’s innovation is likely to be […]
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A standard field trip in elementary school was the aerospace museum. They had two flying cars that had been built in the 1930s. Looped videos of grainy black and white footage ran showing them driving down the street, then flying over San Diego. As we sat in traffic on the way back to school, students and teachers alike wondered aloud about what happened. Who wouldn’t want […]
The Blockyball or Blockhelix is on the way. Quantum computing is here. Google made it work with a 53 qubit processor called Sycamore cooled to nearly absolute zero. The 3 minutes and 30 seconds of calculations done would take 100,000 computers 10,000 years to replicate. IBM says that their own 53 qubit processor, with conventional engineering, could replicate Google’s results in 2 1/2 days. It […]