In a recently leaked
Importance of this milestone can be estimated from the fact that Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, compares this to the first 12-second flight from the Wright brothers.
In a recent paper from Google posted on NASA.gov, which has been taken down earlier this week. The tech giant seems to have attained a state in ‘Quantum Computing’ which was previously supposed to be a far cry.
In the paper, Google says that it has achieved quantum supremacy, a major milestone towards the development of quantum computers.
To understand the impact of this we need to
First understand the ‘Quantum Supremacy’.
It’s the point at which a quantum computer can complete a mathematical calculation that is demonstrably beyond the reach of even the most powerful supercomputer.
You can know more about ‘Quantum Computers’ here
Although google is declining to confirm the authenticity of the paper and its results. NASA also did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
According to a source from Google, NASA accidentally published the paper early, before its team’s claims could be thoroughly vetted through scientific peer review, a process that could take anywhere from weeks to months.
But if the paper holds up to its claims then it is going to be one of the greatest moments in quantum science.
According to the paper’s claim, Google’s 53-bit quantum computer, named Sycamore, took 200 seconds to perform a calculation that, according to Google, would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputer Summit 10,000 years.
The paper’s copy was retri
The experiment
The experiment described in the paper sampled randomly generated
The calculations have almost no practical use. It was chosen just to show that Sycamore can indeed work the way a quantum computer should. Practical Quantum machines are still many years away, due to huge technical hurdles.
And even then they might beat the traditional supercomputers only in certain tasks.
But
Competition has been shown to be useful
Franklin D. Roosevelt
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
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