Quantum Supremacy, WTF?

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google says it's reached "quantum supremacy." We break down what that means for computing and why IBM is pushing back. Featuring: @KSHartnett Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor Leveraging Secondary Storage to Simulate Deep 54-qubit Sycamore Circuits Hosts: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.0	Hi, this is Ariel Dim Ross, the host of Reset, and the Reset team is currently on holiday break. This year, I'm spending that time in New York City and I have time off so I'm probably going to spend a little bit of time playing video games, hanging out with my wife and my dog, and making music on my new synthesizer.
0:55.6	With that in mind, we're running one of my favorite episodes of Reset today.
1:00.3	It's about Quantum Supremacy.
1:02.2	This episode breaks down what that term means and where quantum computing might be headed.
1:07.0	And so if you didn't have an opportunity to listen to the episode the first time around, now's your chance.
1:13.0	Enjoy and happy holidays.
1:15.0	Google's been cooking up something big.
1:21.0	In a study published in the journal Nature
1:23.8	last week the company announced that it reached something called quantum
1:28.1	supremacy. Google says it has achieved the impossible quantum Quantum supremacy.
1:33.0	Google says it's designed a computer that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that the
1:37.6	world's fastest supercomputer would need 10,000 years to figure out. This is Sycamore.
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