Quantum 'puters and AI are two areas that President Putin has directed Russia to focus on so whatever the boss wants RT delivers.
We've been following the D-Wave, Google, NSA quantum computer adventure for a while, more after the jump.
From the folks formerly known as Russia Today:
I'm thinking the announcement was Google's to make not NASA's., so they pulled it.Google’s new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world’s top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA “accidentally” shared the firm’s research.The software engineers at Google have built the world’s most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, citing the company’s now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Google, but later quietly taken down, without explanation.
Google and NASA have refused to comment on the matter. A source within the IT giant, however, told Fortune that NASA had “accidentally” published the paper before its team could verify its findings.
In the research, Google reportedly claimed that it takes their new quantum processor just around 200 seconds to make calculations that existing supercomputers would require around 10,000 years to perform. They also said the processor requires mere 30 seconds to complete a task the Google Cloud server would need 50 trillion hours to do....MORE
Previously:
March 2019
"Inside the high-stakes race to make quantum computers work"
March 2019
Quantum Computing That Is Actually Useful Gets A Bit Closer to Reality
October 2018
Computing: "D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service"
October 2018
"10 Quantum Computing Startups Getting Funded in 2018"
Keeping in mind that Google is pretty fired up on D-Wave's architecture while Rigetti and Alibaba are developing proprietary systems....
September 2018
Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Is Almost Ready For Business
Thus sayeth Rigetti:...
March 2018
TASS: A multi-qubit quantum computer could be created in Russia within a year
March 2018
Quantum Computing: "Volkswagen Refining Machine Learning on D-Wave System"
"Google and VW partner on quantum computing to improve electric car batteries"
Volkswagen Using D-Wave Quantum Computer To Fight Beijing Traffic (plus the VW Level 5 autonomous vehicle)
February 2018
"The Argument Against Quantum Computers"
February 2018
Supremecy—Quantum Algorithms Struggle Against Old Foe: Clever Computers
January 2018
Breaking Bitcoin With a Quantum Computer
And the 2017 series:
Questions America Wants Answered: "Is Quantum Computing an Existential Threat to Blockchain Technology?"
Yeah, I Got Your Bitcoin Right Here: "‘Quantum Checks’ to Replace Cryptocurrencies in the Future?"
Computing: Will Quantum Devices Outperform Classical Computers by Year-end 2017? (thus achieving 'quantum supremecy')
The route to high-speed quantum computing is paved with error
"Google's Quantum AI Laboratory set out investment opportunities on the road to the ultimate quantum machines" (GOOG).
And many, many more.
Including 2015's
"Google says it has now proven that D-Wave’s quantum computer really works" (GOOG)
We have quite a few posts on D-Wave, links below, and through most of them our attitude was a dubious "Show me".
It appears they may have.
