https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ze-to-find-actual-uses-for-quantum-computers/
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Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Brisket smoker.
Beer cooler.
Electric space heater.

Hey Google, where's my $5m?

 

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ze-to-find-actual-uses-for-quantum-computers/
Technology
Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Brisket smoker.
Beer cooler.
Electric space heater.

Hey, Google where's my $5m?

Door stop?

 

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ze-to-find-actual-uses-for-quantum-computers/
Technology
Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Brisket smoker.
Beer cooler.
Electric space heater.

Hey Google, where's my $5m?

Creating a truly conscious machine? ... I'm just say'n ...

 

Creating a truly conscious machine? ... I'm just say'n ...

The caveat was 'Actual, Practical' uses, not fantasies.

 

Anchor for aircraft carrier?

 

Anchor for aircraft carrier?

Quantum objects float.

Sometimes.

 

Quantum objects float.

Sometimes.

And don’t float and the same time!

If we fill the carrier with cats…

 

Anchor for aircraft carrier?

That's about 30,000 pounds for a modern carrier anchor. Maybe if we melt it all down with the utility transformers, HVAC components and building steel.

 

Microsoft and Quantinuum’s quantum computer may be most reliable yet

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“What we did here gives me goosebumps. We have shown that error correction is repeatable, it is working and it is reliable,” says Krysta Svore at Microsoft.

 

In a global first, scientists create, store, and retrieve quantum data

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Quantum dots, generated in the device were passed through a quantum memory system that stored them with the help of rubidium atoms.

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...e-faster-more-efficient-and-decently-accurate
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate

A paper released during the SIGBOVIK 2024 conference details an attempt to simulate the IBM ‘quantum utility’ experiment on a Commodore 64. The idea might seem preposterous - pitting a 40-year-old home computer against a device powered by 127-Qubit ‘Eagle’ quantum processing unit (QPU). However, the anonymous researcher(s) conclude that the ‘Qommodore 64’ performed faster, and more efficiently, than IBM’s pride-and-joy, while being “decently accurate on this problem.”

At the beginning of the paper, the researchers admit that their ‘Qommodore 64’ project is “a joke,” but, sadly for IBM, its proof of quantum utility was also built upon shaky foundations, and the Qommodore 64 team came up with some convincing-looking benchmarks. There was some controversy about IBM’s claims at the time, and we are reminded it took just five days for the quantum experiment to be simulated on an ordinary MacBook M1 Pro laptop. The jokey Quantum Disadvantage paper (PDF link, headlining section starts at page 199) ports this experiment to a machine packing the far more humble MOS Technology 6510 processor.

In conclusion, the researcher(s) asserts that the ‘Qommodore 64’ is “faster than the quantum device datapoint-for-datapoint… it is much more energy efficient… and it is decently accurate on this problem.” On the topic of how applicable this research is to other quantum problems, it is snarkily suggested that “it probably won’t work on almost any other problem (but then again, neither do quantum computers right now).” Overall, it is difficult to know whether the results are entirely genuine, though a lot of detail is provided and the linked research references in the paper seem genuine.