unfortunately where quantum computing is concerned, shear processing power rarely if ever translates directly to raw calculation potential. Just because a q-bit can be tricked into doing calculations for you, definitely does not mean theres a way to access the information in real time.
Theres also usually a long period of time between something like this first being developed and the infrastructure capable of supporting its existence being in place on a large scale.
We are at least a decade or two away from q chip like that actually being implemented in a truly useful way. Like i said, getting q-bits to perform a calculation, unlike current chips, is a completely different task then actually accessing the information provided by the calculations, or even knowing which calculations being performed are the ones you even want the data back from. You can generate data more quickly that a super computer can with that chip, but that data still has to be processed through a standard super computer to even know what data has been produced.
Willow is a milestone leap towards that being a reality. One that took almost 30 years to pull off, and as sits, is still largely incomplete when contrasted to Google's goal of creating a perfectly useable quantum computer. The big change is that now Q-bits can be scaled up effectively at the small scale. In single chips. This will probably result in the accuracy of q-bit based calculations rapidly approaching the accuracy of modern x86 or ARM based computing.
huge step yea, but i have little to zero confidence the quantum computer and AI things will both mature quickly enough to to really have an imp[act on the collapse of geopolitics, climate, and culture that is already quite rapidly underway, unfortunately. One can definitely hope, but i have become rather cynical and jaded on this front.
Willow is a huge step, but the biggest cultural/societal benefit from Willow is probably gonna be the Ad revenue it generates through article clicks, and big-money investors are really gonna start to pay attention now. Willow itself is just a first iteration/proof of concept that quantum computers can indeed, one day, be of practical use/value. We are literally only *just now* figuring that out for sure with Willow. The thing we have spent 30 years or more working on, is possible to do, thats what we know now. Not much else.
Personally i kind of see Willow as comparable to switching from an abacus to vacuum tube based computing in the 1940's as far as the maturity of the technology goes.
My only comment on aliens:. Saving an already doomed species from their selves is a waste of resources. The planet itself will recover on it's own. There's no reason for that. Makes a lot more sense, really no matter how you look at it, to just let us burn and get eaten by the biosphere. Let a species handle itself, and if it cant, it's not something you want around anyway.
like “light speed” space travel! Non of that “floating around” at 18,000 mph bullshit! Hahahaha!
ill be in the next one for sure!
