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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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Stop looking at Luigi, and focus on this please.
I get that I may be getting wooooshed, but TechCrunch nearly exclusively covers tech tech (and, uh, gaming for some reason), which that entire thing is not a part of.
Your probably right
Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.
The linked HackerNews thread speculates that the relevant comment was tongue-in-cheek.
Google also said they wouldn't kill Stadia, a month before they killed Stadia. Maybe it still lives in another universe.
This terrible headline keeps going...
Tldr; Completely misleading. Someone said it must use peocessing power from other universes because they are amazed by some of the results - not that anything proves anything related to a multiverse.
Exactly. There isn't some finite limit on processing power per universe AFAIK, that would be absurd.
There's a good chance parallel universes exist, but this has chip has nothing to do with that.
Google says a lot of things.
Google also says their AI is self-aware, has feelings, wants to marry the dev who blurted that out, etc...
Wasn't that one dev who said that?
Then let us go to a fucking good one.
And ruin it for its current residents?
Would it just be us, not them over there?
In the end, it would be just us...
Which is more likely: that Google's benchmarking system is wrong, or that quantum computing somehow takes place across hereto unprovable alternate realities?
I know which one I would pick.
So their processor is so powerful it somehow reaches out to another universe to use power for computation functions..? How do you even prove something like this?
My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.
Sounds like "Hyperion" plot to me
But is it a simulated multiverse?