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Honestly, I'm skeptical that this even demonstrates quantum supremacy. Like I said in a different comment in this thread, all they did was let the device run fo
by fluoridation 2y ago
Honestly, I'm skeptical that this even demonstrates quantum supremacy. Like I said in a different comment in this thread, all they did was let the device run for some time on whatever nonsense was in its memory and let it reach some meaningless state. Since it would take a classical computer a long time to simulate the qubits at the physical level to reach the same result, that shows that the quantum computer is much better at executing itself. But that's stupid. By that same logic, electronic computers are faster than themselves, because it would take a long to simulate a computer at the physical level on another, identical computer.
If the QC isn't doing any meaningful computation, if it's not actually executing an algorithm, then it's not possible to compare their respective efficiencies. Or rather it is possible, but the answer you get is meaningless. Let's make it fair. How long would it take a ~100 qubit quantum computer to simulate at the physical level a smartphone's SoC running for 1 second?