The alleged dangers of AI have been shoved down people’s throats for years, led by doomerism about it eliminating human jobs or wiping out mankind itself.
Yet, there are far fewer discussions about how scientists are on the cusp of a breakthrough more powerful and much more worrying: Quantum computing.
The tech — pursued by Amazon, IBM, Google, Nvidia and others in the US — will revolutionize what computers can do, based on quantum physics.
Giving a glimpse at what’s possible, Google claimed its Willow quantum chip took just five minutes to solve a computational problem so complex it would have taken today’s most advanced super-computers approximately 10 septillion years to crack, according to one of the company’s blog posts.
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