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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist | TechCrunch
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Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.
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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    Summary:
    One googeling person managed to come up with such extraordinary BS that all the press is echoing it…

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      Stop looking at Luigi, and focus on this please.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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        I get that I may be getting wooooshed, but TechCrunch nearly exclusively covers tech tech (and, uh, gaming for some reason), which that entire thing is not a part of.

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          Your probably right

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      Honestly, it’s not as BS a claim as it sounds, but it is a deeply speculative one

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        If you read that original quote in the article. Speculation on many levels. No claim at all.

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          Now you’re just being unreasonably pendantic

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      Not anymore!

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      Yes but Microsoft won smartphones war there.

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        Can you tell me how to get to that universe?

        I fucking loved Windows Phone and was horribly mad that Microsoft bungled it, bought Nokia, bungled it further, then eventually gave up.

        It was years ahead of the shit Apple and Google were doing, but good lord Microsoft just couldn’t manage to figure out how to sell the thing, even with super amazing hardware, like the Nokia 1020.

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          You can install the Square Home launcher and be back to the look and feel of the windows phone.

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          M$ EEE-d Nokia then lost the phone market. Dumbasses.

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    Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.

    The linked HackerNews thread speculates that the relevant comment was tongue-in-cheek.

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    Google also said they wouldn’t kill Stadia, a month before they killed Stadia. Maybe it still lives in another universe.

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    This terrible headline keeps going…

    Tldr; Completely misleading. Someone said it must use peocessing power from other universes because they are amazed by some of the results - not that anything proves anything related to a multiverse.

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      Exactly. There isn’t some finite limit on processing power per universe AFAIK, that would be absurd.

      There’s a good chance parallel universes exist, but this has chip has nothing to do with that.

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    Google says a lot of things.

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    Google also says their AI is self-aware, has feelings, wants to marry the dev who blurted that out, etc…

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      Wasn’t that one dev who said that?

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    Which is more likely: that Google’s benchmarking system is wrong, or that quantum computing somehow takes place across hereto unprovable alternate realities?

    I know which one I would pick.

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      It’s not really a case of their benchmarking being wrong: quantum speed advantage is a real thing, the point of argument is whether that implies parallel universes or not

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        It could, but not because it’s borrowing processing power from all lost another universe, but because we find something out about quantum mechanics that only makes sense if parallel universes are also a thing.

        The quote is stupid and should never have made it out of the lab where it was likely intended as a silly joke.

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    Then let us go to a fucking good one.

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      And ruin it for its current residents?

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        Would it just be us, not them over there?

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          In the end, it would be just us…

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    Obligatory Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

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    But is it a simulated multiverse?

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