Ramya
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Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Google announced their latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' with Sundar Pichai stating on Twitter that 'Willow solved a standard computation in less than 5 minutes, a task that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years.' My question is: can we expect this kind of computation to reach the consumer market soon? Is this the future of computing?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Of course it helps to have a problem that requires that level of computing power to solve, but, based on the history of computing hardware, I see no reason why this power would not be available to "ordinary" people even if access were provided via cloud services. -NDT
p.s. A reminder of how far we've come.....
https://www.businessinsider.com/pictu...
p.s. A reminder of how far we've come.....
https://www.businessinsider.com/pictu...
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