Turn down the quantum volume

Re:Turn down the quantum volume by meowface on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:59PM (#22500654)

It's not BS at all. It proved that they could use a quantum computer to compute something that would be infeasible for a classical computer to solve in a reasonable time frame. That's huge. It's a toy computation, sure, but that's still a major step.

It has to be scaled up much more before it can do useful things, and the scaling process is very difficult and costly. But we now have confirmation that the idea is sound.

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Re:Turn down the quantum volume by core-questions on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:13AM (#22501156)

> It proved that they could use a quantum computer to compute something that would be infeasible for a classical computer to solve in a reasonable time frame.

Yeah, but they were basically computing noise, and it's bloody difficult to say that the ability to do that is meaningful enough to have claimed "supremacy" already. It's a huge premature celebration for a team that has had incredible difficulty trying to scale up beyond a tiny number of noisy qubits; like, good for them, but the purpose of this effort really seems to be to make for good water-cooler conversation among the Google execs than it is to actually do useful science.

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Re:Turn down the quantum volume by anoncareer0212 on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:34AM (#22501218)

You're talking way out of your field, read Aaronson for a good accessible take on why all of what you're saying is wrong

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Re:Turn down the quantum volume by core-questions on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:36AM (#22501226)

I've read enough Aaronson to know that he's just too smug of a person for my liking, honestly. It shines through in everything he writes, leaving a nasty sheen on things.

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