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Re:Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup by phaas on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:52AM (#10709100)
Imagine simulating a human brain. I'm not sure how massive a computer would need to be today to simulate the neurons, but an efficient implementation can be made to be the size of.. Well.. A brain.

I could see this causing massive changes in society. An artificial intelligent simulation of a super-smart human, that can be tuned toward a specific problem area and made much more focused and efficient than a purely biological brain could work...

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Re:Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup by dvanduzer on Thursday December 10, 2015 @01:15AM (#10709145)
Is there a specific reason a quantum computer would be better at simulating a human brain than a classical computer?
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Re:Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup by drdeca on Thursday December 10, 2015 @10:15PM (#10715275)
Well, to simulate the chemistry in the brain, would, I think, involve simulating some quantum mechanical things, which a quantum computer might be better equipped to simulate?

Is the argument that I've heard.

I don't know how that works when the qubits are being used to deal with other sorts of variables than bits though?

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