"Google makes a quantum leap that suggests we may live in a multiverse"

Science and Technology
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The new Quantum chip can apparently achieve in 5 minutes what would take other computers 10 septillion years. The article goes on to state that that sheer number in itself might lead us to think that we live in a multiverse. Very interesting, but I am in a permanent struggle to understand on what all of this is based.
Apparently, “researchers believe that quantum computers need more qubits to be more powerful—but more qubits also means more errors. Tackling this error issue has long been one of the quantum computing sector’s largest challenges—one Google may be able to tackle.
“The more qubits we use in Willow, the more we reduce errors, and the more quantum the system becomes,” writes Google Quantum AI lead Hartmut Neven”"

So, more qubits means more powerful AND more prone to error, or is it that more qubits “reduces” errors AND the more “quantum” the system becomes? It makes me wonder if all this is the complexity of quantum physics or if it is related to the contemporary linguistic takeover of science - and everything else?

And am I the only one to see shades of Ray Kurzweil’s AI singularity in “quantum supremacy”?

Anyway, this putative superiority of quantum over “classic” computing is based on a concept designed as Random Circuit Sampling. “(RCS) is a leading proposal for demonstrating quantum computational advantage–the event when a noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computer efficiently performs
a computational task that is intractable on classical computers.”

“Quantum advantage (quantum supremacy) refers to the event when a quantum computer efficiently performs a computational task which would take a prohibitively long (e.g. exponential) time on any existing classical computers. Due to its pro- found implications, quantum advantage is considered a milestone in the fields of quantum computation and quantum technology. In terms of the theory of computation, if successfully implemented, it would serve as a refutation of the extended Church-Turing thesis, whereby demonstrating the power of quantum computation. In terms of physics and engineering, it would be a landmark of quantum technology in building and manipulating complex quantum systems with high precision. It should be noted, however, that quantum advantage experiments often do not concern about the practicality of the problem being solved.” (from Random Circuit Sampling by Quynh T. Nguyen)

I always tend to focus on the last phrase - “It should be noted, however, that quantum advantage experiments often do not concern about the practicality of the problem being solved.” It might be because I am a bit dumb, but I always feel there is a lot escaping me in all of this…

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#2

The full paper “Random Circuit Sampling”, by Quynh T. Nguyen, here: https://nguyenquantum.github.io/Random_circuit_sampling.pdf

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I don’t believe they have a viable quantum chip.
Looks more like a psych op; than computer “science”.
More to mislead, than anything else.

Yet, there are off-world possibilities.
And possibilities; are all about quantum mechanics.
Really have to mention that; "quantum mechanics, is much like jumbo shrimp.
An oxymoron.

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looks You are on the point, and their claims sound somehow familiar

“Well, firstly, Susskind was absolutely explicit in his book that he was producing a multiverse as an alternative to theism.” [1][1]

not that there are not any dimensions, but not in a sense how neopagans imagine it and want to be, but as levels of realms, and most possibly due to our Free Will and fractal consciousness that through selfdelusion possibilities we to reach different projections whether own or others in this realm where we are confined, or if/when we enter another to assume what is what!, tho we cant grasp in this realm in totality how things work, what about elsewhere!, yeah feed the comp given prompt, and it will say possible, but is it reachable such answer, how when why!?, tho its good clickbait info that should entertain someone, maybe the next nasa or darpa budget :smiley:

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The design team is spending a lot of money and need to push out some good news. I’m not an expert and maybe he is not either but Clif High says 90% of the effort to build a quantum computer is separating it from the thoughts/intent of the humans experimenting with it. Linking many of them together into a quantum network would seem very difficult. Not sure how doing something like programming it to crack a cryptocurrency code would be done. All the experiments I’ve heard about were very highly controlled ones. So, deployment of thousands of quantum computers that change anything materially in the present environment seems unlikely.

I worked adjacent to research work at one time and know there is periodically the necessity to ‘show progress’ to keep the funding coming.

AI is a different story. Some very interesting posts recently about USG seeking to give a monopoly preference to 3-4 AI companies in exchange for ‘influence’ in programming the algo preferences of the code. Look for Marc Andreessen on the Joe Rogan Experience.

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#6

CYRUS A. PARSA of A.I.orgnization.org seems to be highly read in on this subject. He has kind of faded off The Scene which should let us know he was on target!!

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#7

Link does not pull… found this one.

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I’ve got several of his books.
In fact; it was at this site, I found out about his work.
Looks to be ahead of the curve - in several arenas of thought.

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here’s a short clip of the insulating shield they have to place around the quantum computer (willow) to isolate it from the thoughts of the humans running it who might affect the outcome of it’s computations (evidence of the pervasive nature of consciousness)

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