What's with all this hype about Google and quantum supremacy?
Google might have been the first company to achieve quantum supremacy — but the paper that proved it was taken down not too long after being posted.Researchers at Google purportedly have become the first to achieve quantum supremacy, the Financial Times originally reported.
The demo was a narrow technical test, meant to prove that figures spit out by a random number generator were in fact, truly random. It is unclear why or when the post was removed from the website and how long it stayed up. Google has not responded to media requests for comments.Google and NASA conjured up a deal last year that would see the space organization analyze results from the quantum circuits run on Google’s quantum processors and compare them to classical computing simulations.
A quantum computer uses quantum bits, known as qubits, that can exist in both states at once. It follows the laws of quantum physics that allow it to solve problems in parallel order, rather than sequentially as a traditional computer might. It will never be a desktop sitting in your bedroom, but instead can potentially help scientists crack cryptography, build large simulations, speed up artificial intelligence and perform computations at a faster rate than any other supercomputer.
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