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Originally posted by an0nThinker
This is an interesting topic. I read the whole wiki article and even though I understand why this is a big thing, what I don't understand is how this works inside a chip. This is a simulated quantum computer at best. We are far far away from a real one, if there is any way for that to be even possible. There is no way we can match the real processing power of the universe.
But what about the video card? Could you hook it up to something like Google Glass and travel to Anti-Matter worlds?
Originally posted by Aleister
reply to post by Clairaudience
Thanks. I've just read the op and watched the video, and have learned much. Well put together data. The speed and complexity of computer chips has been an interest of mine, seeing how fast they are changing and the new materials being both used now and in consideration to be used and/or just newly theorized or developed, so this thread plays right into that. Thanks again.
Originally posted by Subterranean13
A lot of people are getting way ahead of themselves about quantum computers. They are definitely worth researching and investing in, but their real world applications are extremely limited. They will not be supplanting normal computers any time soon, and as much as the people desperate for investment like to claim, they are no where near close to all the current computers, let alone the universes computing power.
Originally posted by Aleister
reply to post by Clairaudience
But if this "law" stands up, and within a few years we won't even recognize what quantum-computer chips have evolved into, what do you think things like every-household virtual reality and holographic interfaces will look like? And will they become the norm or still be in the hands of the few. Many years go I "saw" the computers of the future run by chips so small they were a gas in very small unbreakable enclosures.
Originally posted by Clairaudience
Well in my opinion the first major thing we will see coming from quantum computing is Artifical Intelligence. Quantum computing allows for the first time to create true self-learning and self-programming machines. It will also allow us to map and simulate the human brain, which is another major step to create A.I.
Originally posted by yampa
Originally posted by Clairaudience
Well in my opinion the first major thing we will see coming from quantum computing is Artifical Intelligence. Quantum computing allows for the first time to create true self-learning and self-programming machines. It will also allow us to map and simulate the human brain, which is another major step to create A.I.
I disagree. I don't think quantum computers have any necessary connection with intelligent computing. Moore's Law or not, there is no indication that Quantum Computing can do complex human-style cognitive tasks any better than a regular computer.
I think you should not so much advertise the wild speculation output by industry - this is not a scientific approach to understanding computers or intelligence.
I disagree. I don't think quantum computers have any necessary connection with intelligent computing.
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According to Rose, artificial intelligence in particular could benefit from quantum computing: "Recently there have been advances in the science of learning that allow us a path to try to actually try to mimic human-type learning in an engineered systems. And, somewhat fortuitously, the underlying mathematics of those systems can be run on our hardware."
Rose continues, "What we are doing on the application side is trying to understand the power of the state-of-the-art learning techniques when they are running on our systems. In the service of building complete engineered systems that behave and mimic human intelligence. Not just intelligence in the sense of being able to do things faster, but mimicking human creativity, judgement and so on. For the first time in history, I believe that the frameworks for understanding how to do this are in place and our hardware is ideally suited to attacking one of the hard bottleneck problems that underlies this type of approach."
Originally posted by InfiniQ
Don't mind me, just passing through... in a manner of speaking...
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Originally posted by Clairaudience
According to Rose, artificial intelligence in particular could benefit from quantum computing: "Recently there have been advances in the science of learning that allow us a path to try to actually try to mimic human-type learning in an engineered systems. And, somewhat fortuitously, the underlying mathematics of those systems can be run on our hardware."
Originally posted by InfiniQ
Talking about imaginary mathematical models and their complete misunderstanding... sheesh... it doesn't get any more messed up than this whole qubit business. It really doesn't.