• @[email protected]
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    226 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    666 months ago

    Summary:
    One googeling person managed to come up with such extraordinary BS that all the press is echoing it…

  • @[email protected]
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    186 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    86 months ago

    So their processor is so powerful it somehow reaches out to another universe to use power for computation functions…? How do you even prove something like this?

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.

  • @[email protected]
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    156 months ago

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

  • Aatube
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    266 months ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        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.

  • Australis13
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    106 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        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.