In its personal heady weblog put up, Google debuted Willow, its newest quantum chip. It was flanked by hyped headlines that counsel one thing akin to the obelisk in 2001: A House Odyssey. The breakthrough may not be concerning the energy, nevertheless: Google says it has diminished errors — a serious problem with constructing quantum computer systems — by including extra qubits to the system.
In actual fact, Google makes no declare of quantum supremacy this time — one thing the corporate did when it publicly debuted its earlier era quantum laptop in 2019. That declare shortly resulted in controversy, with one researcher calling the corporate’s announcement “simply plain unsuitable.”
A part of the difficulty then was that Google’s final quantum chip was not a part of a general-purpose quantum laptop. As an alternative, it surpassed basic computer systems in a single process: random circuit sampling (RCS). However, in Google’s personal phrases, RCS has “no identified real-world purposes.”
Nevertheless, the corporate is sticking with the metric, claiming RCS efficiency is a widely known gauge of quantum computing. That makes true comparisons troublesome: Rivals together with IBM and Honeywell use a quantum quantity metric to tout their breakthroughs. They declare it provides a extra holistic understanding of a machine’s capabilities. Google’s spec sheets and weblog put up don’t point out quantum quantity in any respect.
— Mat Smith
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