• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    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.

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    Google also said they wouldn’t kill Stadia, a month before they killed Stadia. Maybe it still lives in another universe.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Google also says their AI is self-aware, has feelings, wants to marry the dev who blurted that out, etc…

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    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.

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      It’s not really a case of their benchmarking being wrong: quantum speed advantage is a real thing, the point of argument is whether that implies parallel universes or not

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        It could, but not because it’s borrowing processing power from all lost another universe, but because we find something out about quantum mechanics that only makes sense if parallel universes are also a thing.

        The quote is stupid and should never have made it out of the lab where it was likely intended as a silly joke.