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Have D-Wave demonstrated any actual quantum behaviour yet? I had them down as a scam prior to the google involvement; now I'm not sure what to think.
I think if there is someone I would not want to own a quantum computer, next to Lockheed Martin, thats Google. They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else. If they are the first to spend the money on seriously making use of quantum computers, who on earth is going to stop them if they decide to make bad use of their power? I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the co…
What one Earth does this mean?
Singularity draws ever closer...
I think if there is someone I would not want to own a quantum computer, next to Lockheed Martin, thats Google. They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else. If they are the first to spend the money on seriously making use of quantum computers, who on earth is going to stop them if they decide to make bad use of their power? I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the co…
They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else What one Earth does this mean?
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There have been some calculations that are consistent with entaglement which is a premise for quantum behavior. However D-Wave isn't a general quantum computer. It's an adiabatic quantum computer. I'm pretty sure it can't solve Shor's algorithm, because it only does function optimizations.
D-Wave does have a factoring algorithm. See the comments from D-Wave here: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/learning-to-program-th... "We do have a factoring algorithm that I’m going to do a series of blog posts on"
I think if there is someone I would not want to own a quantum computer, next to Lockheed Martin, thats Google. They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else. If they are the first to spend the money on seriously making use of quantum computers, who on earth is going to stop them if they decide to make bad use of their power? I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the co…
They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else What one Earth does this mean?
There is no denying that Google is (arguably) one of the most powerful companies out there. Are they ten years ahead of everyone else? Maybe, maybe not. But one thing for certain is that they have the computing power, finance,and connections to pretty much pursue whatever they want.
Is that a bad thing? Who knows. It really boils down to whether anyone/anything should ever have that kind of power.
I think if there is someone I would not want to own a quantum computer, next to Lockheed Martin, thats Google. They already are at least 10 years ahead of everyone else. If they are the first to spend the money on seriously making use of quantum computers, who on earth is going to stop them if they decide to make bad use of their power? I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the co…
Is there any company like this? I mean... it seems companies won't be against privacy as long as it doesn't get in the way of making profit.
Have D-Wave demonstrated any actual quantum behaviour yet? I had them down as a scam prior to the google involvement; now I'm not sure what to think.
[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7346/full/nature1...