Willow, Our Quantum Chip

We need to seriously think if our systems/society are even remotely ready for this.

>It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.

Makes sense, or doesn't it? What's your take on the multiverse theory?

So is it time to 100x key length on browsers yet or not?

In what ways could Google monetize quantum computing?

'It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.'

Wait... what? Google said this and not some fringe crackpot?

Every time this comes up people say they're not actually useful for ML. Is that true? And if not what would they be useful for

what is this actually useful for?

Imagine your civilization develops quantum computing technology and it's for... advertising.

"What is their mission? Cure cancer? Eliminate poverty? Explore the universe? No, their goal: to sell another fucking Nissan." --Scott Galloway

Is this using ionq or is this in-house from google?

QTUM

Now, this is really make other countries nervous. Basically, existing cryptography technology is in danger.

I don’t usually say this often, unlike most here but this is actually a huge achievement in quantum computing.

Yet another example as to why Google is essentially not going anywhere or ‘dying’ as most have been proclaiming these days.

But can it run Crysis?

I don't want to judge people by their cover, but I want to confess to having those feelings right now.

In this day and age, I feel an immediate sense of distrust to any technologist with the "Burning Man" aesthetic for lack of a better word. (which you can see in the author's wikipedia profile from an adjacent festival -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Neven, as well as in this blog itself with his wristbands and sunglasses -> https://youtu.be/l_KrC1mzd0g?si=HQdB3NSsLBPTSv-B&t=39)

In the 2000's, any embracement of alternative culture was a breath of fresh air for technologists - it showed they cared about the human element of society as much as the mathematics.

But nowadays, especially in a post-truthiness, post-COVID world, it comes off in a different way to me. Our world is now filled with quasi-scientific cults. From flat earthers to anti-vaxxers, to people focused on "healing crystals", to the resurgence of astrology.

I wouldn't be saying this about anyone in a more shall we say "classical" domain. As a technologist, your claims are pretty easily verifiable and testable, even on fuzzy areas like large language models.

But in the Quantum world? I immediately start to approach the author of this with distrust:

* He's writing about multiverses

* He's claiming a quantum performance for something that would take a classical computer septillions of years.

I'm a layman in this domain. If these were true, should they be front page news on CNN and the BBC? Or is this just how technology breakthroughs start (after all the Transformer paper wasn't)

But no matter what I just can't help but feel like the author's choices harm the credibility of the work. Before you downvote me, consider replying instead. I'm not defending feeling this way. I'm just explaining what I feel and why.

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I bet Vimeo videos will still chug on it

Is anyone fine-tuning llama to write Q#? I feel LLMs can be a helpful tool in learning how to code quantum systems.