Critical breakthrough in quantum cumputing

[RAMA]

Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-scientists-critical-quantum.html

This on the heels of this posting less than 2 months ago that I made:

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-first-ever-quantum-device-errors.html#inlRlv

Since this last breakthrough, Martinis and the senior members of his research group have, since this research was performed, entered into a partnership with Google.

This is one of several ways to break through to the next paradigm of computing keeping Moore's law intact with the next S-curve. Possibly the most likely one at this point.

RAMA

 

[Robert Maxwell]

There's enough hedging and weasel words in that article to make your head spin.

 

[Avon]

reads like an IBM press release.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Cumputing? Are Siemens involved in the project?

 

[Kemaiku]

Cumputing? Are Siemens involved in the project?

Someone's got hardware on the brain.

 

[mos6507]

Cumputing? Are Siemens involved in the project?

Yes. I welcome the day when our computers are fast enough to spell-check every input field on the internet.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Well with quantum cumputing, I expect the principle of superposition will allow one to experience orgasm and disappointment simultaneously.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Well with quantum cumputing, I expect the principle of superposition will allow one to experience orgasm and disappointment simultaneously.

You need quantum superposition for making another Star Trek?

 

[RAMA]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/geordie-rose

 

[intrinsical]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/geordie-rose

That podcast contained so much misinformation. Dwave's machine is NOT a Quantum Computer, its a Quantum Annealing machine. Annealing does not involve any actual "computation" at all.

Instead of listening to wild AI predictions from non-AI experts, how about listening to what actual AI experts have to say?

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/not/

 

[Mary Ann]

Thank you once again, intrinsical, for setting the record straight on this subject.

 

[RAMA]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/geordie-rose

That podcast contained so much misinformation. Dwave's machine is NOT a Quantum Computer, its a Quantum Annealing machine. Annealing does not involve any actual "computation" at all.

Instead of listening to wild AI predictions from non-AI experts, how about listening to what actual AI experts have to say?

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/not/

He is an AI expert and on top of that there are plenty of AI experts at the top of the field on this video series.

When you start your on quantum computing company then I will give your opinions equal value.

All that WIred article (which i have read before) does is try to calm the admittedly extreme panic by other technologists, scientists and experts which have recently come forth to remark on the AI "danger". We would be safe in the "forseable future" if there wasn't accelerated change involved...but because it is, these are things we have to consider in the next few decades. I'd still maintain there might be danger but equal opportunity, which is commonly left out of such doomsaying.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

When you start your on quantum computing company then I will give your opinions equal value.

Maybe when you start getting some real education about science instead of parroting sensationalist fluff, we will give your opinion some value.

 

[{ Emilia }]

When you start your on quantum computing company then I will give your opinions equal value.

Maybe when you start getting some real education about science instead of parroting sensationalist fluff, we will give your opinion some value.

I strongly suggest you guys focus on the content of people's posts, not on the poster.

 

[RAMA]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

When you start your on quantum computing company then I will give your opinions equal value.

Maybe when you start getting some real education about science instead of parroting sensationalist fluff, we will give your opinion some value.

If it were sensationalist, then I might agree. Since the last article was about the chief technologist at a quantum computing company(now working with NASA, Google, et al) , and the OP was about a breakthrough at IBM from the Physics.org site, then I'll let my posts speak for themselves, and see who has the leg to stand on.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Yeah, I think I'll let your tedious, repeating, increasingly irrelevant posts speak for themselves.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

reads like an IBM press release.

That's because it IS.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/geordie-rose

That podcast contained so much misinformation. Dwave's machine is NOT a Quantum Computer, its a Quantum Annealing machine. Annealing does not involve any actual "computation" at all.

Instead of listening to wild AI predictions from non-AI experts, how about listening to what actual AI experts have to say?

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/not/

He is an AI expert

No he isn't. D-Wave doesn't even make AIs, they make experimental processor chips that may or may not even be quantum computers (nobody actually knows how they work and it's beginning to appear that D-wave doesn't either).

Geordie Rose isn't an AI researcher. He's a physicist who is trying to sell what he claims to be a quantum computer to AI researchers.

When you start your on quantum computing company then I will give your opinions equal value.

Are you sure? Because it's INCREDIBLY EASY to start your own quantum computing company in this country. All you have to do is fill out the paperwork.

The hard part is producing a product that actually works and produces meaningful, marketable results. D-Wave hasn't done that yet.

It's again time to ask why, if you are so convinced that the advent of the Singularity is inevitable, is it so important to convince people that it's inevitable? If your beliefs hold true, we'll all SEE it for ourselves when the singularity finally happens.

So why the need to evangelize?

All that WIred article (which i have read before) does is try to calm the admittedly extreme panic by other technologists, scientists and experts

But see, there's no "panic" by technologists, scienctists or experts. There is a lot of "panic" by people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, very smart people who, despite being very smart, AREN'T AI RESEARCHERS and don't know what the hell they're talking about. Bill Gates is the closest thing there is to a "technologist" in that regard and he's not an AI researcher either.

So to say that there's a panic among "experts" is a lot saying that Steve Austin refused to wrestle in the Olympics.

 

[intrinsical]

Re: Critical breakthrough in quantum computing

Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/geordie-rose

That podcast contained so much misinformation. Dwave's machine is NOT a Quantum Computer, its a Quantum Annealing machine. Annealing does not involve any actual "computation" at all.

Instead of listening to wild AI predictions from non-AI experts, how about listening to what actual AI experts have to say?

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/not/

He is an AI expert and on top of that there are plenty of AI experts at the top of the field on this video series.

Did you even listen to your own linked podcast? He's a boxer who had the chance to take a university class in quantum mechanics. That doesn't even make him an expert in quantum mechanics, much less artificial intelligence.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Well with quantum cumputing, I expect the principle of superposition will allow one to experience orgasm and disappointment simultaneously.

You need quantum superposition for making another Star Trek?

(|yes> + |no>)/sqrt(2)