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Me: I don’t understand this. Also me: This is amazing! “My colleagues sometimes ask me why I left the burgeoning field of AI to focus on quantum computing. My answer is that both will prove to be the most transformational technologies of our time, but advanced AI will significantly benefit from access to quantum computing. This is why I named our lab Quantum AI. Quantum algorithms have fundamental scaling laws on their side, as we’re seeing with RCS. There are similar scaling advantages for many foundational computational tasks that are essential for AI. So quantum computation will be indispensable for collecting training data that’s inaccessible to classical machines, training and optimizing certain learning architectures, and modeling systems where quantum effects are important. This includes helping us discover new medicines, designing more efficient batteries for electric cars, and accelerating progress in fusion and new energy alternatives. Many of these future game-changing applications won’t be feasible on classical computers; they’re waiting to be unlocked with quantum computing.”
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Surfside 1 year ago
There seems to be a big ass jump in capability from many different fields set to converge in the next few years in a synergistic way. I can see the bitcoin life raft that my buddies don't, but will there also be quantum powered AI life rafts required soon etc. Crazy!
It's still vaporware dressed up in fancy math: "The next challenge for the field is to demonstrate a first "useful, beyond-classical" computation on today's quantum chips that is relevant to a real-world application."
> This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch. Why this weird sentence? View quoted note →
Because it's all pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that can't be proven - you just have to "believe"
"Current estimates put breaking 256-bit encryption (including SHA-256) 20-30 years into the future when quantum computers may have enough stable qubits and error correction to implement Grover’s algorithm at scale. While Grover’s algorithm reduces the complexity, SHA-256’s security margin is still considered adequate against such brute force attacks."
"It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."
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Austin 1 year ago
The image at the bottom is the TLDR image
For anyone worried about this, quantum resistant encryption tech is constantly being developed. This is just the game of cat and mouse that has been played between defense and offense for all of history. This video by #Veritasium does a phenomenal job of explaining the subject.
Maybe. But there is too much marking fog in any CC announcement which makes it extremely difficult to understand what amount of progress is being really made.
quantum computers will break everything before it can break Blockchain, banking system, government's, security cameras etc. question is, can the Blockchain reach a consensus to upgrade from SHA256 to a quantum equivalent hashing algo before everything's too late?
Is quantum resistant upgrade to bitcoin security being worked on and would that mean generating new seedphrases?
@Jameson Lopp has argued quantum computing poses a near term threat to Bitcoin. Now we have this. Perhaps we need upgrade plans sooner than expected.
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Brian 1 year ago
it can both be cool and also be very far from being able to break sha256.
Does anyone has the concrete BIP's that aim to solve this and make bitcoin quantum resistant? I know there are some but would lile to read them first hand. Also isn't "just changing" the hashing algorithm a crazy impact on mining hardware? Asics would become inefficient over night no? But the difficulty would adapt ? I could use some help lol :D
Thanks for the link. Will definitely be watching that tonight. I feel like I've already seen it, but it's probably worth a rewatch. 🤝 Also, @miljan Can we get native npub, note, naddr & nevent links in the next @primal update? ↑ Manually punching this string into an address bar to see the quoted note is a pretty jarring UX.
Oh, whoa. It shows up just fine now on my Android, but it was plain text earlier when I viewed it on the desktop/web version. Thanks for pointing this out to me. I'm new here & still getting the hang of it. 🤝