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Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry’s attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    221·
    5 days ago

    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

    JFC what a fucking slimeball.

    The chip is great and all, they used it to run a specially designed but useless calculation that’s hard to do in conventional computing. It’s not like the thing is going to give you the 7 septillionth digit of pi, Even the fact that it might be able to break RSA is more of a quirk in RSA than anything.

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    5 days ago

    Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.

    “Yeah that ought to get the shareholders nice and wet.”

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    So it’s fine to make statements like this but it’s not fine to write an angry post on the web. Yeah makes sense. /s