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Today the world changed forever
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Quote: In a world first, a team led by John Martinis, an experimental physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Google in Mountain View, California, says that its quantum computer carried out a specific calculation that is beyond the practical capabilities of regular, ‘classical’ machines1. The same calculation would take even the best classical supercomputer 10,000 years to complete, Google estimates.
10-23-2019 09:40 AM
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The scary part is that they would have no idea if the answers are right. There's a randomness in quantum mechanics as they point out:

"...Another important step, says Aaronson, is demonstrating quantum supremacy in an algorithm that uses a process known as error correction — a method to correct for noise-induced errors that would otherwise ruin a calculation. Physicists think this will be essential to getting quantum computers to function at scale...."
10-23-2019 09:48 AM
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I think there are far more dangers in quantum computing than any of us realize. The greater danger would be letting a China succeed before us.
10-23-2019 10:02 AM
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