Holy shit. "Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 10^25) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe."
https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/
Me: I don’t understand this.
Also me: This is amazing!
“My colleagues sometimes ask me why I left the burgeoning field of AI to focus on quantum computing. My answer is that both will prove to be the most transformational technologies of our time, but advanced AI will significantly benefit from access to quantum computing. This is why I named our lab Quantum AI. Quantum algorithms have fundamental scaling laws on their side, as we’re seeing with RCS. There are similar scaling advantages for many foundational computational tasks that are essential for AI. So quantum computation will be indispensable for collecting training data that’s inaccessible to classical machines, training and optimizing certain learning architectures, and modeling systems where quantum effects are important. This includes helping us discover new medicines, designing more efficient batteries for electric cars, and accelerating progress in fusion and new energy alternatives. Many of these future game-changing applications won’t be feasible on classical computers; they’re waiting to be unlocked with quantum computing.”
This is awesome and a wee scary at the same time 😅
There seems to be a big ass jump in capability from many different fields set to converge in the next few years in a synergistic way. I can see the bitcoin life raft that my buddies don't, but will there also be quantum powered AI life rafts required soon etc. Crazy!
Anyone know how to do quantum encryption?
We need that shit ASAP.
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Thanks for the link. Will definitely be watching that tonight. I feel like I've already seen it, but it's probably worth a rewatch. 🤝
Also, nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr Can we get native npub, note, naddr & nevent links in the next nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg update?
↑ Manually punching this string into an address bar to see the quoted note is a pretty jarring UX.
Try using a different app? nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg Shows it properly.
Oh, whoa. It shows up just fine now on my Android, but it was plain text earlier when I viewed it on the desktop/web version.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. I'm new here & still getting the hang of it. 🤝
It's still vaporware dressed up in fancy math:
"The next challenge for the field is to demonstrate a first "useful, beyond-classical" computation on today's quantum chips that is relevant to a real-world application."
Not that bad 😅
I hope my internet money really is magic now…
> This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. 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, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
Why this weird sentence?
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Because it's all pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that can't be proven - you just have to "believe"
Ok lets do the first priority boring mission, hack bitcoin.
What does that mean for encryption?
"Current estimates put breaking 256-bit encryption (including SHA-256) 20-30 years into the future when quantum computers may have enough stable qubits and error correction to implement Grover’s algorithm at scale. While Grover’s algorithm reduces the complexity, SHA-256’s security margin is still considered adequate against such brute force attacks."
https://itoolkit.co/blog/2023/08/will-quantum-computing-break-sha-256-encryption/
"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, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."
For anyone worried about this, quantum resistant encryption tech is constantly being developed. This is just the game of cat and mouse that has been played between defense and offense for all of history. This video by #Veritasium does a phenomenal job of explaining the subject.
If the chip is so cool why haven't they broken at least one of Satish's private keys? Obvious answer: it's all BS and marking.
It's not all BS, it's just very early. They can't do very complicated calculations on quantum computers yet.
it can both be cool and also be very far from being able to break sha256.
quantum computers will break everything before it can break Blockchain, banking system, government's, security cameras etc.
question is, can the Blockchain reach a consensus to upgrade from SHA256 to a quantum equivalent hashing algo before everything's too late?
its bs
Strange to think, Satoshi's coins WILL move, one day.
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Is quantum computing a serious threat to Bitcoin?
nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp has argued quantum computing poses a near term threat to Bitcoin. Now we have this.
Perhaps we need upgrade plans sooner than expected.
Son of a…..
Does anyone has the concrete BIP's that aim to solve this and make bitcoin quantum resistant? I know there are some but would lile to read them first hand.
Also isn't "just changing" the hashing algorithm a crazy impact on mining hardware? Asics would become inefficient over night no? But the difficulty would adapt ?
I could use some help lol :D
sounds crazy eeehhaaaa
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the assumption of knowing the age of the universe is just absurd.
