Google said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
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They didn't do any calculation at all, solved no "computational problem". They demonstrated a quantum error correction scheme that *might* allow them to, one day, do such calculations. I'm so tired of these breathless headlines. (The work itself is impressive).
But will I be able to get the anti aging medicine before I reach 80 years old? Will I be able to afford it and if I reverse to young again do I lose out on my Social Security benefits?
Beautiful. Brilliant.
Saw this on television. Machines must serve humanity and make life easier not more complex. The future of innovation is bright and many are hard at work to break even fresher grounds.
OK so go solve the climate change problem - oh wait, it needs to run on power and needs water to cool and then kill the planet. There, problem solved. No planet, no climate change issues.
Including all bank accounts, including all classified government documents, including every company's data. Sha256 security underpins it all, including Bitcoin.
If you are legitimately worried about that, make sure you have physical gold, don't feel secure with digital dollars in a bank account
I'm going with yes. And that's likely the first target of the first bad actor, so they get the biggest buck before the value drops to 0 across all crypto currency.
Unfortunately, it is likely impossible to prevent that at this point. Without some kind of radical, global change, it seems like the concept of absolute privacy is going to disappear.
Agreed, sadly, but people who do things like pay bills online should know that such conveniences might go away for awhile.
That's the 2nd order effect, we return to a cash economy during the interim between 'state-sponsored financial data manipulation' and 'everyone has a quantum computer'
There's going to be a time where banks and others will need to go passwordless and use something that can't be easily brute forced; like biometrics; making us much more reliant on our smart devices.
But secure e-commerce transactions? That's open season if this chip gets mass-produced
I don't think that is a bad prediction. People who wish for privacy are going to find whatever measure of it they are willing to devote time and effort toward attaining. The coming years may see people recoiling from technology in the name of privacy and security, and it will be deserved.
You can relatively accurately calculate how long things will take on a classical system by the nature of the way they calculate. If you know how many operations per second it is capable of, as well as roughly how many operations it will take to solve a problem, it is trivial to calculate.
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No?
Then why would I give a damn?
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They failed at AI, losing search and ad customers, and need a new buzzword to talk about for attention.
IBM is miles ahead of them in quantum computing.
Saw this on television. Machines must serve humanity and make life easier not more complex. The future of innovation is bright and many are hard at work to break even fresher grounds.
Hopefully nobody that dumb is allowed around the real codes.
If you are legitimately worried about that, make sure you have physical gold, don't feel secure with digital dollars in a bank account
BTC is what it is
Am I missing something? I am no expert
There are people selling at this price.
So fanfic you wrote in middle school and forgot about still on the school server...
Or securely transferred bank statements copied enroute...safely encrypted for how much longer?
That's the 2nd order effect, we return to a cash economy during the interim between 'state-sponsored financial data manipulation' and 'everyone has a quantum computer'
But secure e-commerce transactions? That's open season if this chip gets mass-produced
Except they don't have the engineering skills to put it all together.
Yeh, I get it...the quantum computer gave an answer, but is it correct?
Congratulations?