Record-Breaking Chinese Supercomputer Marks New Quantum Supremacy Milestone

If this discovery holds, it clearly shows alongside other discoveries, why quantum computing and A.I. will bring about the technological singularity.

We've got another quantum computing milestone to report, with researchers in China unveiling a super-advanced 66-qubit quantum supercomputer called Zuchongzhi, which by one important metric is the most powerful machine of its kind we've seen to date.

The performance of Zuchongzhi is undoubtedly impressive: it finished a designated quantum benchmark task in around 70 minutes, and its creators claim the world's most powerful 'classical' (non-quantum) supercomputer to date would need around eight years to get through the same set of calculations.

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This will be why quantum computers will be so powerful. They can do calculations in a few hours that will take classical computers 10 years to do. What does that mean for us?

It means, we're close to a technological singularity.

When we discover things, we have years to figure out and process information about the discovery. So we have had years to learn about what the internet can do. We have had years to learn about General Relativity. We have had years to learn about quantum mechanics.

With A.I. and quantum computers, imagine a General Relativity, internet or quantum mechanics type discovery every year or every 2 years. Humans will be lost because we don't have time to process all of these discoveries. A.I. and quantum computing could make discoveries that are thousands to millions of years beyond human understanding.

You will have to have post humans. Humans with brain chips that will allow A.I. to give us some understanding on how to build the technology. We may not understand it but A.I. will show us how to use it. It's like most people don't understand how a computer or car works but they're still on the internet and they drive.

The problem there is, you can get an A.I. that reaches the conclusion that 2 billion people have to die. It doesn't mean it's evil, it's just reched a conclusion based on information and we would have no idea why it reached this conclusion.

It can then say all humans need to take this new pill to avoid any cancer. We make the new pill and billions of people take it and a month later 2 billion people have dropped dead.

We would be at the mercy of this A.I./quantum computer.

We should include a note of caution about these results, as the research has yet to be peer-reviewed

From your link .

originally posted by: Gothmog

We should include a note of caution about these results, as the research has yet to be peer-reviewed

From your link .

First off, didn't you read the first line of my post? I said:

If this discovery holds, it clearly shows alongside other discoveries, why quantum computing and A.I. will bring about the technological singularity.

IF THIS DISCOVERY HOLDS.

Secondly, I have little doubt that it will not hold because of the team behind the discovery. Here's the rest of the quote you didn't post. Stop quote mining things without th full context.

We should include a note of caution about these results, as the research has yet to be peer-reviewed, but given the team's track record and the detail of their experiments, this is certainly worthy of our attention

Finally, discoveries like this have already been made with 54 qubits:

The task was considered to be roughly 100 to 1,000 times tougher than one previously completed by the 54-qubit Google Sycamore quantum computer, and it shows the sort of major performance difference that each additional qubit can make.

Again, stop quote mining without context.

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Maybe they can now make a safe vaccine for the virus they created.

I'm serious. Let a quantum computer analyze viruses and come up with vaccines. Is that not possible?

I keep thinking Skynet. I watched Terminator two days ago. Everything in that movie seems less fiction and more sciencey.

And thus as the great computer, greater than all that came before it combined, was allowed to have access to all the information known to humans. The first question was put to it, "Does God exist?" In all its greatness and a second of thought, just to be certain by evaluating the information several hundred times, its reply was, "He does now."

Where is the off switch?

a reply to: neoholographic

WOW!

This post made me think. I see how it would be easy for an AI quantum computer to crush human understanding. We would have to become cyborgs or something. The internet was made available to the public April 30, 1993. That gave humans 28 years to fully understand it. If you had an internet like discovery every year or two, humans would be lost and you can see how this AI quantum computer could be hundreds of thousands years ahead of us in understanding.

A very satisfying OP, now my brain is going mental.

I like it a lot 👍🏼(except the part where my impending doom anxiety levelled up)

Great post. S+F

Humans will be lost because we don't have time to process all of these discoveries. A.I. and quantum computing could make discoveries that are thousands to millions of years beyond human understanding.

I don't think we lack the capability to understand the discoveries, at least conceptually.

If a 66 qubit machine is made public, do you think the military (any country) has ones that are larger, or would bragging rights make everyone want to disclose?

I'm not sure that AI would determine that x number of people have to die. Wouldn't it come up with a better solution like advanced propulsion systems that would allow us to explore the stars?

Cure for cancer should be top priority. If we can't figure it out ourselves then maybe that thing (or others like it) can.

China can't even be honest about how few people they have in their country, there mission to Mars, their space station, so how are we suppose to believe this about their "Quantum Computer".

I know let's take more focus off of the Bubonic Plague by releasing more faked science news. China is number one in science, but refuses to discuss the real issues.

They can't even build a dependable Dam, much less a computer.