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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Summary:
One googeling person managed to come up with such extraordinary BS that all the press is echoing it...

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop looking at Luigi, and focus on this please.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Your probably right

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can I go to a universe where google doesn't exist?

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Not anymore!

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes but Microsoft won smartphones war there.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can you tell me how to get to that universe?

I fucking loved Windows Phone and was horribly mad that Microsoft bungled it, bought Nokia, bungled it further, then eventually gave up.

It was years ahead of the shit Apple and Google were doing, but good lord Microsoft just couldn't manage to figure out how to sell the thing, even with super amazing hardware, like the Nokia 1020.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You can install the Square Home launcher and be back to the look and feel of the windows phone.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

M$ EEE-d Nokia then lost the phone market. Dumbasses.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

Google says a lot of things.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Wasn't that one dev who said that?

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then let us go to a fucking good one.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And ruin it for its current residents?

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would it just be us, not them over there?

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

In the end, it would be just us...

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like "Hyperion" plot to me

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

But is it a simulated multiverse?