That's one small step for man...
One giant leap for Singularity Kind.

I think we're already there. I think we're having a version of the simulation discussion. Aren't we discussing the kind of computer that could run our universe?

This keeps me thinking our whole universe may be a simulation already. The question becomes when did we cross over?

These quantum breakthroughs are coming at a ^ rate now we shall see pay attention people.

Are things out of place? Glasses empty that were full watch for the glitches they are coming more frequently now no?

Advancements in technology is such a beautiful thing. Well, beautiful, if it's used for good and not evil....haha

For the Layman...

Don't feel un educated because you can't see thru the "Grand View" as presented by all the Showmen.

This experimentation with what they call "Q-bits" is really just another evolution of computers (the same computers) that will make them ever smaller and faster. That is the trend, eh? From room sized to desk sized to "Dick Tracy and Beyond".

This particular development if it is successful, will result in a simply smaller faster computer. Thats all. The problem with the "size" part is that the individual memory cell size is a mere electron in size (The BIG GOAL) and that size is so very tiny small that any external noise or frequency in the ether can change its 1 or 0 state. Thats why the super cooled single junction circuit in the IBM video.

All computers work in "binary" (meaning two). Like a light switch a memory "bit" (data) is read in either an "on" (1) or "off" (0) position. All the ones and zeros streaming around in a computer (and between them) make up the "program" which you are typing and reading right now.

Digital signals appear to us on an oscilloscope screen like this:


Without going into a lot more detail and keeping it as simple as possible, the pic represented is a trace of a single digital signal that has hi points and low points. The his are 1's and the lows are 0's. This could be a memory signal (data), an address bit (location in memory) or a control signal (what action to take, like write or read, etc.).

This is only one bit. When you hear the term 64 bit processor, you have a processor that can utilize or "measure" the data storage and control of 64 bits of data at once. The more bits and the higher the frequency (how many Giga are we up to?), then the faster and higher the capacity. The "quicker" things appear to move on your screen and the "higher" the resolution.

This quantum super computing research is aimed primarily at size reduction. The smaller overall they can make the box that holds these computers in the palm of your hand say, then the more "advanced" they are considered to be. Whether you need it smaller or not is another story.

For instance there are limitations to how small a keyboard can be. That is determined by the size of the human finger tip. And how small the print can be, etc.

Nothing to be concerned about really. They're just reinventing the wheel one more time.

I would be more concerned with the current technology that puts vast amounts of data into witch hunt programs and then directs hi explosive missiles from the sky at the "enemy". Those kind of "protocols" are the most insidious now and down the road.

"As IBM points out, a 250-qubit quantum computer would contain more bits than there are particles in the universe."

Ok, technology just got scary.

Like I said, it's safe to assume the government(s)-US/UK-are already there and then some. They're probably using it to run the markets, or forecast anyway.

With that kind of computing power you can pretty much dictate/play God with this blue marble. Isn't that what's happening? And they're ruining it.

Historically quantum computers were used to decrypt field cipher authenticated messages. They did not have the capability to do if then else decision tree processing.

There was a declassified report release somewhere that described a single electron loop decision tree processor.
I don't know where to put it on the computing time line probably near the actual development of the Josephson junction devices.

Found this snippet in a brief search this morning. Apparently a more recent problem with AI circuits is that they could overload analyzing things like contrails. Perhaps they don't have a conscious sense of their limits?

NANO, QUANTUM AND MOLECULAR COMPUTING in this case, will suffer from both time and space explosion problems! This phenomenon is termed “solution explosion". This is also the reason the authors of [29] avoid having the SAT-solver run to a leaf node of the decision tree, and instead they let BDDs finish off the decision tree starting at intermediate nodes. The solution explosion problem have not been well addressed in either [31] or [32]. As a result, learning plays an important and critical role in non-BDD-based unbounded model checking for large designs. In particular, recent Automatic Test Pattern Generator (ATPG)-based and SAT-based Unbounded Model Checking [21–23, 13–15, 24], can offer potential memory savings over BDDbased methods. In particular, we will discuss a new technique that centers around learning from “successes”.

Still seems to be classified but suppose we were somehow able to assimilate the mind of Konrad Zuse back in the 1940's. Instead of hiding your computer in a barn we move it to an area in space.

Now the jet age dreams of the Nazis become something else and concepts like extra terrestrial intelligence, star wars etc etc become easier to understand?