Willow, Google’s newest and touted as the finest quantum computing chip, was just released. Although Google’s claims regarding the chip’s speed and reliability were noteworthy in and of itself, an even more astounding claim in the blog post on the chip grabbed the attention of the tech community.
Willow, Google’s newest and touted as the finest quantum computing processor, was just released.
Although Google’s claims regarding the chip’s speed and reliability were noteworthy in and of itself, an even more astounding claim in his blog post, Hartmut Neven, the inventor of Google Quantum AI, said that this quantum computing chip was so incredibly quick that it had to have taken processing power from other worlds.
Accordingly, the chip’s performance suggests that “we live in a multiverse” and that parallel universes exist.
Willow’s results on this metric are astounding: A computation that would take a modern supercomputer 1025 or 10 septillion years was completed in less than five minutes. On paper, that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This astounding amount is far greater than the age of the cosmos and surpasses known physics timelines.
As we increase the number of qubits, Willow may cut mistakes exponentially. This solves a significant problem in quantum error correction that has been worked on for over three decades, said its official blog post.
The Willow chip is a major step on a journey that began over 10 years ago. When I founded Google Quantum AI in 2012, the vision was to build a useful, large-scale quantum computer that could harness quantum mechanics — the “operating system” of nature to the extent we know it today — to benefit society by advancing scientific discovery, developing helpful applications, and tackling some of society’s greatest challenges.
As part of Google Research, our team has charted a long-term roadmap, and Willow moves us significantly along that path towards commercially relevant applications said Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead, Google Quantum AI.
We made conservative estimates about Willow’s ability to outperform Frontier, one of the most potent classical supercomputers in the world. For instance, we made the generous and impractical assumption that Frontier would have unrestricted access to supplementary storage, such as hard disks, without any bandwidth overhead, added the Google Quantum AI Founder and Lead.
The rapidly widening gap indicates that quantum processors are eroding at a double exponential rate and will continue to significantly outperform classical computers as we scale up.
Of course, we expect classical computers to continue improving on this benchmark, as happened after we announced the first beyond-classical computation in 2019 writes Google in its official blog post.
What is a Quantum Computing Chip?
The processor of a quantum computer is a quantum computing chip. The primary benefit of quantum computing over traditional computing is the presence of quantum bits, or “qubits,” in these circuits.
While a qubit can have a value of 0, 1, or both, a traditional computing bit can only have a value of 0 or 1.
Because of this, quantum computers can process algorithms and equations ten times quicker than traditional computers. Although this technology is currently being used on a modest scale, it has the potential to drastically change how we think about computing.
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