AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing Amazon Web Services has partnered with the National University of Singapore (NUS) in hope of improving quantum technologies and their applications. The duo announced they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week. The collaboration will be led by the NUS-hosted Quantum Engineering Program (QEP), a five-year SG$25m ($ …
"AWS debuted a cloud quantum computing service the tech giant calls “accessible, affordable and easy to use”"
It's an AWS emulator of brute force algos.
So a company comes along "Quantum supremecy.... look how much faster our Quantum bubble sort is vs a digital computer bubble sort"!
And along comes Amazon, with a "Use a giant cluster of our AWS computers to emulate your 'quantum bubble sort'! It's so much cheaper than their fancy machine with its liquid nitrogen and magnets and finiky hardware. Instead of $20 million to sort your 1000 entry list, ours will do it for only $2 million on 1000 of our AWS server instances!
And then people point out that it doesn't actually sort correctly, a more sorted list is possible to find using proper digital sort algos!
"Quantum bubble sort needs more research...." they scream ".... we need billions to fix the error correction and get quantum bubble sort error free and unlock its potential"
Well either that, or it never worked the way you said it did, and it is an analogue computer.
elReg, a Thomas Buchert 'finite universe' article, or the "light from behind black hole" article would be nice.... there's some ''minor things' there....
Vapourware as a Service. IT Magic.
And we all all know how effective Magic is. Nice one, Singapore/AWS, that's an AWEsome Crack Hack although incredibly difficult, as in nigh next to impossible, to Guarantee Never Malign and Always Benign with/without Almighty Pragmatic Command and Remote Virtual Control.
Pandora and Merlin the AI MetaDataBase Physician say Hello and Thanks for all the Phish.
And to be perfectly honest with y'all, you aint seen fcuk all yet for the Greater IntelAIgent Games are only just getting set up to rock your socks off and blow your minds. And Amen to that.
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Now you have been made aware of the matter, prepare yourselves for the payload nodes.
Undoubtedly quantum theory is powerful because it explains why electrons have predictable orbits around nuclei and so we end up with DNA and intelligent life. Despite an immense amount of noise and chaos continually raining on the parade, the pattern of life grows around it and thrives. But in order to thrive, Life with a capital 'L' accepts death with a small 'd' - noise and chaos demands it fair share.
For that reason I do not have gut level confidence that the present iteration of quantum computing, which requires elimination of noise and chaos, is going to be successful. I think recurrent quantum systems that find their own stable eigenstates and thus have built in noise cancelling are more likely to be successful.
That sounds a like what D-wave is hoping to achieve, but apparently they are not there yet in terms of getting better solutions than classical computers can provide.
Quantum computing does not, will not, and will never work.
Stop worrying about all cryptography becoming breakable over nigh, because it won't.
Stop spending money on it just in case someone else gets working first, because they wont.
The only thing that will come out of it, is a better random number generator.
There is no magic solution to every problem in zero time.
Quantum computing does not, will not, and will never work.
Completely incorrect in almost every detail - well done.
Quantum computers with a handful of Obits have been demonstrated. Using Shor's algorithm factorising small integers is no problem but they are very small, 21 factored to 3 & 7 was the last one I heard about.
The big problem is scalability, a quantum computer with just a handful of Qbits is no more than a lab curiosity with no real world use. Scaling it up to dozens or hundreds of Qbits and maintaining coherence is the bit which may never happen.
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