The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has now selected Microsoft as one of two companies that will advance to the final phase of its Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC).
The moment I read this, my first thought was, DOGE probably fired everyone involved in this program, and said they just saved American citizens $99999 trillion dollars by doing it.
DARPA is always cost a lot of money. Wouldn’t they the ones that try to investigative psychic powers were real? Oh and for a while they were trying to develop a perpetual motion machine.
Of course in retrospect that looks stupid, but if they’d ever succeeded in building a perpetual motion machine they would have made all their money back and then some. So it isn’t immediately apparent that they will have saved anyone any money. They’ve just not spent the money, which is not the same thing at all.
I’ll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem
I bet they’re going to use it for AI.
The question stands.
I took a course on quantum computing in university. It’s a really neat technology and it can absolutely do things inconceivable by classical computing, but classical computers still do most stuff way better. In a rational world these chips would be developed and then used for their niche purposes, but I’m definitely concerned that this will be another technology indiscriminately shoved in our faces to try to capitalize on a bubble.
Until you see companies selling liquid nitrogen generators, you’re not going to have to worry about anyone pushing quantum chips on the average consumer.
Although presumably there are companies that do sell liquid nitrogen generators
the problem they will eventually solve is how to spy you better and feed you more AI crap
The engineers spun it up, and it asked if they wanted to back up their files to OneDrive.
Sorry making sure that prompt happens uses up all my qbits, I can’t do anything else.
Why not call it Marihuana right away?
The next one will be called Vulvana.
Can it run Doom?
As long as you don’t observe it.
Oh you
If not it will soon. Maybe even 2 copies at the same time
Microsoft has outlined its research in a peer-reviewed paper published today in Nature,
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08445-2
explaining how its researchers were able to create the topological qubit. Microsoft has helped create a new material made from indium arsenide and aluminum, and it has placed eight topological qubits on a chipthat it hopes can eventually scale to 1 million.
majorana particle at wiki …i tried marjorana once.
Did you inhale?
oh yeah, got zooted
No, I did not inhale.
Not sure what to make of this, they’ve got the potential to put a million qubits on a chip, but there’s only 8…
And others have had quantum computers for a while now… so… 🤷🏼♂️
Still a breakthrough for them, so still nice to hear. Yes its Microsoft, but its still nice to see progress in research.
Fuck no! Keep Clippie software only! And keep it in the recycling folder!
