Scott Aaronson has commented about the Dwave paper that was published in Nature. (Quantum annealing with manufactured spins) In the new work, they apply an annealing operation to eight coupled qubits arranged in a 1D chain, then plot the probability of a particular basis state as a function of time, by running the experiment over …
Dwave has had their 128 qubit adiabatic quantum computer chip for some time It is a 4×4 array of 8-qubit unit cell Just a few days ago Dwave published a peer reviewed article in the prestigious journal Nature that confirms that their 8 qubit unit cells are leveraging quantum effects. So proving the 8 qubit …
Partha Ranganathan is Hewlett Packard’s Principal Investigator for HPs exascale datacenter project and is an expert on data center design. Modern data centers are not nearly as efficient as they could be and waste prodigious amounts of energy. Unless these inefficiencies are addressed, exascale supercomputers and data centers will never be feasible. In an interview …
The artificial general intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel is a major proponent of anti-aging research. In H+magazine, Goertzel interviews one of the foremost authorities on the subject, Jao Pedro de Magalhaes. Magalhaes is confident that with sufficient funding, anti-aging treatments could be in use by mid-century. Aubrey de Grey’s Key to Longevity If you liked this …
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In an interview with Sander Olson, Cornell engineer and researcher Hod Lipson discusses adaptive, evolving robots. Lipson’s robots compete and learn, and acquire new skills in movement. Lipson uses simulators to co-evolve both simulators and robots. Lipson’s has already demonstrated a robot that can compensate for losing a limb by modifying its movement. Hod Lipson …
Quantum Computer researcher Suzanne Gildert claims that computronium is unobtanium. Computronium is defined by some as a substance which approaches the theoretical limit of computational power that we can achieve through engineering of the matter around us. It would mean that every atom of a piece of matter would be put to useful work doing …
A Dwave systems, adiabatic quantum computer, critic (Chris Lee at Ars Technica) has retracted statement that Dwave was borderline fraudulent. Geordie and friends, I am sorry. I don’t know if you have a working device, but the theoretical work produced by D-Wave is sharp and a great indication that you are honestly pursuing your stated …
Artificial General Intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel has interviewed nanotech/AI researcher Josh Hall and AGI researcher Pei Wang for Humanity+ magazine. In the Pang interview, Dr. Pang interview Pang claims that sentient machines could be only a decade away. In the Hall interview, Hall argues that advanced machine intelligence and desktop nanofactories will emerge sometime in …
A circuit of four superconducting qubits. Scientists have succeeded in entangling three of these. Yale work published in Nature NY Times reports that I.B.M. has reconstituted what had recently been a relatively low-level research effort in quantum computing. I.B.M. is responding to advances made in the past year at Yale University and the University of …
J Storrs Hall looks at what the Singularity look like with just nanotech (full out molecular nanotechnology) and narrow AI? * Life Extension via molecular nanotech * human level AI * nanofactories enable the entire physical economy over into a Moore’s Law-like growth mode, eradicating hunger and poverty in a decade or two. * Flying …