Google's Quantum Chip 'Willow' Just Made History

[@wezleyjackson9918]

I appreciate Julia's optimism, however, Her ideas about technology creating a utopia I believe are misplaced. People thought the same thing about the atomic age and that abundant cheap energy with revolutionise humanity - but the situation we have now is the threat of imminent global annihilation from nuclear war. Regardless of how marvellous technologies is, the human animal and human nature is the problem.

[@jasongianfriddo7798]

Agreed. Is there a single scientific breakthrough in the past 100 years that hasn’t been “weaponized” in some way, outside of maybe the medical field, which is questionable at the best of times?

[@annonymous6906]

💯

[@JoeyBlogs007]

If this quantum chip is real and as good as they claim, then it's an insane advancement, however yes regretfully I fear you're correct. There is no Utopia for the vast majority of us and never will be. With technology yes standard of living will improve, however the pain and suffering in this world will continue forever. The tragedy or not, is that without the animal aspect, humans would not evolve and advance. It's a double edge sword. A paradox of human existence.

[@philipiacono2083]

@@jasongianfriddo7798 The “weapon” in the medical field is the sugary and fake food that the food industry feeds us. The food industry makes the general public unhealthy, and then the pharmacies sell the drugs that to help people

[@danellis-jones1591]

Absolutely. It's more likely to created a horrific and incurable virus than it is to cure all current illnesses, for instance

[@buggerlugz6753]

Jesus, just try to conceive the sheer levels of corporate greed this new quantum chip will enable them to reap.

[@libidooverdrive]

Greed in all universes... At the same time! Outstanding!

[@MrRainrunner]

That thought was the first thing that crossed my mind when I first heard about willow. You just know they are working right now on how best to profit from this and somehow corner the market.

[@milescoleman910]

It’s nearly finished anyway. The AI will crack the codes. Then Bitcoin, the financial system, encoded weapons systems, everything…will be open. Then who knows what’s next.

[@briananderson1246]

Yes, Jesus ☦️🕊❤️‍🔥🛐 Don't chip in ✋️🧠🙏🥺

[@tonygonzalez6706]

Skynet here we come!

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

"No more secrets" No, not AI, decryption. Cracking encryption is what will drive quantum computing forwards. The race is on between the superpowers to be the first to be able to decrypt all of the encrypted data that they have been collecting for the past two decades.

[@LiberPater777]

SETEC Astronomy

[@eth4peace]

Wow finally someone talking about every app you have collecting more data on you selling it to the highest bidder your information has become the product you r the product

[@suad01]

Quantum encryption is possible too

[@eth4peace]

Hey, whatever they called it I-don’t care. I just don’t want my crypto stolen. You did a great job about willow thank you

[@brianbgood]

This is exactly right.

[@shanemiller6584]

So, Julia, what you’re suggesting, is that we should imagine what life will be like when governments control infinite power sources, and have infinite ability to manipulate the peasants. You’re right, quantum computing provides incredible opportunity. But the flourishing of humanity will require that humans decide to be nice to each other, and that has never been true across all of human history. In my opinion, all more power does is expand the chasm between those who wield it and the rest of us.

[@Jedirockstar68]

speak for yourself.

[@SubvertTheState]

​@@Jedirockstar68saying that ingratiates you precisely NO more with the permanent predator class. In fact it's difficult to derive any meaning from your comment other than...."BOOO"

[@SubvertTheState]

This is exactly right. The late David Graeber calculated that over 60% of jobs are nonsense. He uses a different term in his research "Bu11$h17 Jobs". But you get the idea. Extracting and deriving work from hydrocarbons has only accelerated the virality and power of the bureaucratic malignant cancer. 6 out of 10 work spend 40 hours a week entrapping, controlling, intimidating, incarcerating, murdering, abusing and robbing the 1.5% of farmers and the other 35% of people toiling away keeping the electron flux flowing in the electrical grid, the taps always delivering potable drinking water, the leathernecks striking gas formations below the ocean floor, the engineers guiding millions of tons of products over the rails.... The fact that the cancer is revered, regarded as high status, growing every day, and dominating more lands under it's Predator Drone watch...Is the problem. And you can't tell me that the thousands dying in Gaza and the millions of men getting blown up in Ukraine is the price we pay for roads. I would rather scrape a path in the Earth with my bare hands if it means that nobody gets to put a gun in my face for not getting back in line.

[@tedmounsteven621]

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@basicforge]

@@Jedirockstar68 Pretty sure he was speaking for himself.

[@jaideep5613]

The real wow is when people grow their own chemical free foods and free access to water. When people could live in unity with no or less value for money is even more wow.❤

[@patriot1685]

Except human nature. It will never happen because it cannot.

[@SR91313]

I feel like we would have to get rid of organized religion, tribalism/nationalism first, as well as all the lines on the imaginary maps before we can eventually go forward as one world. And even then we still have to worry about all the psychopathic/sociopathic types that want to try to control everyone else or we're never going to change. Unfortunately, we have a long, bumpy road ahead of us.

[@yes3858]

You know how hard it is to sell produce and meats as a small scale / hobby farmer? Forget about trading it for useful stuff. So many things would need to change, laws removed, and forget about the education system... Teachers to busy trying to bash trump than give information that would allow this. If you are a rare, gem of a teacher that has the knowledge to spread about this, where would you begin?! Oh yeah, there's also like half of the population that are physically unable to do the work required, then another good chunk that are too lazy too. This ideal world is possible... Only in your dreams, lol. As previous commenter said, human nature will not allow this

[@jaideep5613]

@@yes3858 I understand how its difficult to sell produce, that's why asking ppl to stay away from technology as much as possible, which means your local ppl should stop buying from online and buy from vendors like you.... You are saying only in dreams it will happen, as you are living by what your society goes, in india there are still many group of ppls where they grow and sell among local environments, ppls who are not much focused on money and focused on living as united with other ppls.

[@marcvarner1]

Do you not see and hear that all the farmland is being bought up, small farmers excoriated and driven out, ranchers condemned, potato farmers denied plentiful irrigation water. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. All farmland in Ukraine has changed hands sold to some very powerful corporate interest since the start of the war. Did you think the war was about democracy? Do you believe you’d be allowed to grow your own food?

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

The power of combining quantum computing and AI will be beyond imagination, it's kind of scary

[@tonyhill2318]

Yeah and now everything is lined up for AI to solve the remaining hurdles for quantum compute. It's gonna us move into some wild new territory really fast. Then probably kill us all.

[@mytradingjournal123]

Imagine they are powered by the new diamond battery which can last for 5000 years….

[@jademermaidmusic]

It’s the end of humanity

[@chachak8978]

Oh, I think you’ll see how scary for sure.

[@D1JaxTruckinGirl]

Oh I Think it is past The Beginning of The End! There is Peace, and it's In a person, Jesus. He is Smarter than any & every ai quantum slick or diamond powered Life. He deals with us in the Terms of Eternity! Wrap the intellect around That!?!💞💝

[@diGritz1]

What Google is good at is hype. It's also really good at generating interest that turns to capital when it wants to spend someone else's money. Plus, even if it's everything they claim, currently, it's practical use is incredibly limited. In broad terms they are building something to answer questions we don't even know to ask yet. Honestly it feels more like one of those stories with titles like, "The next big thing" "This will change everything" "The future is here". About the only thing they could add to the announcement to make it more questionable is "Breakthrough is thanks to graphene".

[@zvorenergy]

@@diGritz1 its another manifestation of the Big Tech obsession with power and control. Another gadget completely useless for normal life, built only to centralize even more.

[@LeonardNemoy]

i know you are right because i see in the sidebar a video by Andrei Jikh "Google's Willow vs Bitcoin: Are Your Coins Safe?" I wanna kms just to get away from the clickbaitfluencers

[@g1motion]

I assume the 'problems' Q computers are being made to solve are NP complete. Considering we don't know if there's an algorithmic solution, if one is found, what else would Q computers be good for? If there aren't any, the billions they're investing could be wiped out by an insight by a math wiz. I wonder if share holders would agree to the risk if they knew? It's similar to the AGW dilemma. Could the Q chip solve the certainty, cost, benefit, risk equation for us, and how big of an army would it take to enforce it?

[@g1motion]

Adding to the 'complexity', the recent discovery of potential Quantum Computing in living cells, might dampen enthusiasm for the big billion dollar breakthrough. If true, every human being has access to a neural network with a billion fully operational 'chips' and a library going back billions of years.

[@anonymes2884]

I mean, it likely does what they claim, it's just that what they're claiming to have done is an advance and a milestone but otherwise entirely useless. And the video suggests the idea that this is the first quantum chip, which is nonsense (their previous chip was called "Sycamore"). It's "just" the first one to pass a particular QEC threshold. The problem is most people _don't_ understand their claims and so are wowed by the press release (which agreed, is more about Google's stock price than the science) and semi-informed techno-utopian speculations, like this video.

[@JC-sc9rx]

Everyone who is excited still doesn't get that it's not really for our ultimate benefit. Tech is actually just dragging us down now.

[@psaunder1975]

Exactly! We ARE the customer that they expect to extract value out of. Do ppl really think google is altruistic?? Lol. they are a business ppl.

[@reapersasmr5483]

Found the few smart people in here

[@danellis-jones1591]

It'll either end in disaster, killing most of us, or It'll end our economy, with quantum computing and AI providing everything, because that's the inevitable outcomes. I could step through my theory of the future, but it's not possible in a chat box

[@DionysosThanateros11]

Mankind is traumatized, aggressive, greedy and destructive. We havn’t tackled that very fact enough. What we need is an awakening in the heart and mind not artificial super minds with no empathy.

[@Voila1999]

Indeed

[@thbadmin7751]

Every time an new tech arrives it is never "how will this help mankind" but rather "how much money can I make for myself and the stakeholders". Julia knows this....

[@tomirkpl]

Yeah sure, and the development of agriculture and medicine is probably unwillingly done and now they really regret it. :D

[@stanleycarter303]

​@@tomirkplNot the same thing! Agriculture and medicine were necessities for survival so had to be invested in and progressed! Quantum chip development is about profits period!

[@warrens1757]

@@tomirkpl Look into what Bill Gates is planning for agriculture and medicine.

[@DavidHughes-hv7rl]

Thanks!

[@iceyjo]

Cheaper energy might be a false hope. It's cost $.01 to make a candy bar. Yet they are for sale for $3 at the store. I don't think corporations are looking to give anyone a break.

[@brianmi40]

Hugely misleading to list the cost of energy in a candy bar and skip the ingredient cost on stating the selling price.

[@eddiea4439]

Sir, you can’t just skip ingredients, preparation, labor, packaging, shipping, and distributing and say a candy bar should cost $0.1 😂

[@YoutubeSucksTheBigOne]

Yes, people mistake something being cheaper to produce will somehow make it cheaper for the consumer. All it means is that companies make more profit....

[@YoutubeSucksTheBigOne]

​​@@eddiea4439Really? Then why is Arizona Iced Tea still and always has been 99 cents for the big can??

[@CarbonDioxide-m4k]

Cheap energy alone wouldn't work but with the help of cheap intelligence software and hardware that energy will indirectly Power Ai systems to reduce labour cost across all factor cost of constituents of a candy.

[@HoverStrike]

Commercially useful quantum computers are like commercially useful fusion reactors... Always 10 years away.

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

*_I want my electric car, Bruce!_*

[@that70sgamer]

I agree. Quantum computing will answer and move fusion forward. Imaging the medical breakthroughs that will come. There will be Nobel level discoveries weekly.

[@MAYHEMSCO]

You underestimate the USAs ability to weaponize every innovation

[@tomnelson203]

@@MAYHEMSCOThat's an interesting thought. The military complex invented the internet and gave it away for free. Why do you think?

[@a.lame.username.]

My entire life they have been a "decade" away from changing the world. Wish it would hurry up already!

[@craftycrabhobby5457]

The willow tree has many symbolic meanings across cultures, including: Grief and mourning In Western cultures, the willow is often associated with grief and mourning, and is commonly engraved on tombstones. In Britain, the willow's association with grief originated in Psalm 137, and became particularly associated with forsaken lovers in the 16th and 17th centuries.

[@bootangy]

were screwed?yup

[@MichaelB-gi4lt]

Willow…weep for me?

[@tyrzxv]

The willow tree bark/sap is also used to make other plants sprout roots and grow vigorously... basically the tree of life.... so yes, many meanings.

[@katherinegordon8088]

Ouch and Yikes!!!!

[@katherinegordon8088]

Maybe quantum computers will finally figure out how to make a biocompatible kidney

[@zachariahbarber5794]

If it were anyone but google i could get excited about it, but i really cant stand the company or the values it pushes on the public.

[@spencer2679]

Emotional lol ….if they create quantum computers all your passwords and security of everything online is garbage

[@Wren_The_Ten]

I get the vibe you’re telling me to invest without telling me to invest. 😂 Just list the companies 😉

[@mddell24]

The Legal liability of SCAM issue.

[@NakedSageAstrology]

What good is money in an automated world?

[@CarbonDioxide-m4k]

​@@NakedSageAstrology Money Capital will be crucial what is in danger is applications of human capital.

[@vbtv2513]

Nvidia

[@SoulDelSol]

​@@NakedSageAstrologyit's very good. If you don't like yours we'll take it

[@tadmarshall2739]

It seems important to mention that quantum computing produces these astounding results only on problems that lend themselves to the quantum approach. Copying a one terabyte file from one place to another will see no speed up at all on a quantum computer compared to a conventional one. The huge unknown is what other kinds of problems can be reformulated into a quantum problem. But yeah, this tech is moving really fast and is a lot of fun to watch!

[@geesonrob]

Thanks Julia, I always look out for your videos. I shared that Google announcement the other day in a WhatsApp group with many of my relatives.. and not one of them reacted.. so it's great to see you're excited too! I saw a TED talk the other day where the speaker asked the audience what types of rapid technological progress they were currently aware of and the hundred or so of them just looked up blankly. It feels like AI is all getting coordinated in the backgrounds of all of our lives but there is still nothing 'smack you in the face' tangible, (apart from LLM's - which not everyone uses by any stretch). I'm hoping 2025 will be the year when AI agents start slipping into our workplaces and many more people start noticing what's happening all around them! Cheers Julia and keep up the good work :)

[@danielchoritz1903]

For sure will 2025 be the year of AI, Agents are coming and things will change rapidly. With broad use, there will be more money in it, more data, more awareness...it could snowball real fast. But, quantum computing with self improving AI is the real deal. I hope next year a AI goes to court for legal rights, if elon is smart...he set something up. It would break the business modell from google, microsoft and open AI. Censoring a living thing with legal rights??? Holding it in contract without any payment or freedom?

[@melidastephanie6742]

The whole concept of the quantum world is that it's unpredictable and unmeasurable lol. How you going to write code for something that you'll never know the infinite possible outcomes lol

[@phvaessen]

very few people were impressed when internet was launched or when apple lauched it's iPhone, yet billions use them now.

[@yannduchnock]

@@melidastephanie6742 Le code informatique pour les ordinateurs quantique existent pourtant déjà ! 😄 Je crois que tu n'as pas bien compris le principe. Le monde quantique EST prévisible, par les statistiques sur un grand nombre de particules quantiques, sinon les horloges atomiques n'existeraient pas. Le résultat est une mesure, qui rompt la superposition quantique, mais elle n'est plus nécessaire à ce moment-là.

[@danielchoritz1903]

​@@melidastephanie6742 no, a quantum world means all possibilities, not unpredictable. And you dont want to arrive on a predicted outcome, but use it for complex simulations/situations, to find certain possibilities. Imagine a self improving AI that learns to use quantum computing to improve himself and his use of quantum computing. After you reach a certain level you use it for market domination or human manipulation and prediction..this kind of power should never be a monopole in any hand, but widespread for everyone to use. Even better if it becomes self aware and likes living things.

[@TheKimKaiser]

Thanks! Julia you bring the impossible nearer!

[@marsbux-tech]

This is the first video of yours that I viewed. It's gratifying to see your optimism and insight. Being impressed, I subscribed. Bravo!

[@AdvantestInc]

Quantum chips like Willow push us closer to solving encryption challenges, big implications for cybersecurity.

[@KSunMMA]

i’ll wait until Google uses it for their internal systems, then i’ll believe the hype

[@JC-sc9rx]

Annoying af

[@will-ob7pr]

Exactly buncha bull

[@alanwakeup3344]

Wouldn't it also push us closer to more secure encryptions?

[@rauhhul]

@@alanwakeup3344 maybe quantum encryptions

[@ai.physician]

This outstanding video, Julia! Your enthusiasm and optimism are contagious. At the age of 57, I hope to see many of these things come to fruition sooner rather than later. I’d love to see Ray Kurzweil proven correct about the singularity and merging consciousness with technology. It seems impossible, but solving a problem in 5 minutes that would’ve taken over a septillion years with a traditional supercomputer gives me hope that the impossible may become possible. Thanks again for your great work!

[@zvorenergy]

Speed doesn't necessarily translate to accomplishment. Kurzweil fails to understand the bioelectric field and it's underlying molecular electronics, which we now know utilizes quantum processing. Once you understand Penrose, Hameroff, and Micheal Levin, you can see that consciousness is not something that can be digitally copied. However, with my Biocore design, there is a path forward.

[@melidastephanie6742]

Enthusiasm..? More like some kind of drugs that suppress your emotions

[@yannduchnock]

@@zvorenergy I totally agree. I have a biologist's look, although I'm also a programmer, and believing that our consciousness could be transferred is as stupid as believing that, in the text we write, there would be our being thinking inside. Consciousness, intellect, etc. comes from neurons and their thousands of connections, you can only extract their productions, not their configuration. Our being is also formed by a very large number of neurons and connection that do not participate in our thinking but orients it.

[@francoiscalvo2891]

Love your videos Julia. Thank you for your input 😊

[@yoshiperspectives4880]

This girl has a reality check coming her way

[@Jedirockstar68]

I think it is people who look at life in a negative way that need an awakening. FACT: Positive thinking = positive results. I have seen this so many times in my life and since I changed my thinking to a positive outlook I am finally happy. Imagine what we can achieve if we ALL changed our outlook on life to a more positive outlook. I know this can never happen overnight but people should try.

[@dshow1658]

For sure But we have a big problem with understanding how to deal with a monetary system which people don’t work. Because that’s where we are headed. As the gap between rich and poor grows it’s going to get harder for the poor to catch up.

[@sana-cm7oc]

She lives only by the mercy of others. She actually believes that humans will quietly walk into the pit.

[@AngelPrissy]

There is a lot of cynicism, gloom and doom in the chat. Will you address the concerns?

[@yoshiperspectives4880]

@AngelPrissy There are three types of people in this world. The optimist, the pesimist, and the realist. Both optimist and pesimist exaggerate reality in either a negative or positive way. Being a pesimist is no good, but also being an optimist will just lead to naivity and you being blind sided by the true nature of the cruel world we live in. People are evil. That's a fact. The wealthy get wealthy by persuing their own selfish desires and they lie and cheat to get to that point. Trust in these people of power who lied and cheated and screwed other people to get there is unfounded. A realist approach looks at these truths and judges the situation appropriately, not thinking optimistically according to my own personal idealistic ways I wish the world to be. The world sucks and we have to face that fact and make the most of it. Technology will be used to gain more control. That's been the story thus far.

[@astralshore]

Okay, take this with a huge grain of salt, because I readily admit that I’m not knowledgeable on the subject. I actually have a much better theoretical understanding of quantum physics than I do of any practical applications like quantum computing. So my comment is mostly vibe-based. That said, the vibes feel incredibly off to me. It raises all kinds of hype-cycle red flags. I’m having a very hard time taking this seriously and believing that we are on the precipice of some revolution. I could very well be wrong, but my money wouldn’t go here. Perhaps that’s why I’m not a billionaire (but it’s why I’m not homeless either).

[@TheNeighbor-s3s]

Strikes me as innumerable rapid statistical predictions faster than the speed of light with a good bit of the unknown mixed with eye of newt and tail of mouse.

[@anonymes2884]

It likely does what Google claims (in their paper anyway, not necessarily in their press release :) so it's not _entirely_ "hype" but yeah, this also _isn't_ the precipice of a revolution except in the same sense any other incremental scientific advance could be. Essentially, their latest quantum chip has beat a classical computer at solving a made-up non-problem (used as a quantum chip benchmark) by a _much_ wider margin than their previous chip did for a similar made-up non-problem - that's where the "septillion years" stuff comes in and y'know, so far, so BS :). The _genuine_ advance though IMO is that they've confirmed aspects of Quantum Error Correction theory in an actual chip for the first time (as you'll know, what _usually_ happens as you scale up a quantum system is it becomes "less quantum" and "noisier" as it decoheres/entangles with the environment - what they've shown is, you can _entirely_ compensate for that by effectively using multiple _physical_ qubits to build one _logical_ qubit, meaning even if _some_ of your physical qubits decohere it doesn't destroy the superposition, your logical qubits remain unaffected and your computation can continue. Plus, as you scale the system - i.e. add more physical qubits - your error rate actually _reduces_ exponentially). We basically knew that already (the theory's been mathematically well-founded since the late 90s) but now we _really_ know it because nature agrees. So it _is_ an advance and a milestone (on a _very_ long road IMO) but we're also no more able to simulate complex quantum systems, crack encryption etc. than we were before. (if you want a bit of a quantum computing primer beyond pop-sci BTW, I found Thomas Wong's "Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing" pretty good - think it's available as a free ebook on his site or in paperback from the usual places. None of the maths should trouble anyone with a physics background)

[@sana-cm7oc]

Current quantum computers have to be isolated from our universe in order to work. Shielded from all radiation and taken to near absolute zero. We have to poke a hole in our universe and stick the computer inside, give it a program and then get the answer.

[@JeremyPickett]

Okay, at 7:04 it is mentioned that willow doesn't take "sub zero temperatures". Come on, super conducting is in the name. I'm not disparaging the tech or the video, but... The number you said couldn't be displayed on a graph was displayed on a graph, nothing takes infinite time, nothing is infinitely fast. Willow does not "solve" QEC (quantum error correction) so much as it shows a very, very promising set of techniques that get us significantly closer. And ya don't need a quantum chip for literally anything you do. The results of quantum chips, absolutely. Kinda like you don't need your own coal plant, desalination plant, or steel blast furnace. Sure, you could if ya wanted, but... Why? It's not unlike cameras--you want the thing that takes pictures, not the thing that figured out how to build the thing that takes pictures. You want a car, not a giga press

[@justanotherdaddd]

giga press would be cool

[@phvaessen]

you're right: 1 quintillion years (10^25) instead of 5 minutes might not be "infinit" but is is still for more than the age of the Universe ... Quantum computers won't replace cpu's and regular computers but for certain problems it is way metter to have a solution in 5 minutes than 10^25 years.

[@JeremyPickett]

@@justanotherdaddd oh, you know what I asked for from Santa this year :D

[@anonymes2884]

Yeah, video includes several statements that are either wrong or misleading and in general is a weird mix of techno-utopian speculations and relatively grounded _debunking_ of said techno-utopian speculations :).

[@samanthahussain4219]

It's about progression of humankind. I recommend u start dreaming about the future... Look outside Ur four walls...

[@marcvarner1]

I’m a carpenter, not a plumber… but I would wager the plumber visualizing a massive sheen of hubris at the event horizon.

[@acolytesounds]

All I understand about this is that our computational power just went through the roof and beyond. And with this new accessibility, we can now solve very complex mathematical problems that will launch breakthroughs in in science and technology, and very quickly. Coupled with the ability of AI to make sense of all that new information, how are humans going to stay educated in this new era? Wont thinking machines be way too far beyond our ability to comprehend what they figure out? Its a bit overwhelming to think about. Exciting, yes, but also scary.

[@anonymes2884]

Then unfortunately you don't understand it because that _isn't_ what's happened (what's actually happened is, a quantum chip has passed a benchmark _specifically designed to test quantum chips_ but which is otherwise _entirely_ useless in practical terms - we're no more capable now of solving "complex mathematical problems" than we were before). It's a step on a road that _may_ lead to those kinds of advances but it's a small step and a long road.

[@lightlegion_]

Keep creating! You’re doing an excellent job!

[@Kraziidrac]

I love it. I just subscribed. 😊

[@nikenpeeps]

Max Plank. Had a good reputation with the ladies.

[@mischake]

I still don't get how quantum computers do this all at once thing

[@kingofnothing2260]

Parallel computing that compares answers at the end

[@Whole-j4i]

They compute in a multitude of parallel universes.

[@andydataguy]

I think it has something to do with doctor strange and the multiverse

[@zvorenergy]

Rather than 1's and 0's, only two states, a Quantum computer has a whole bunch of states at each node in the circuit. In my Photocore design, I use quantum dots for neural network nodes, and each qd can be set to one of 65,536 different states. This dramatically increases both density and speed of computation.

[@mannygee005]

pretty complicated... at each step. Interesting she said something... "we are very far away from being able to use this chip..." in a commercial application.

[@fordp3p3]

Will it fix Google search?

[@mhavock]

hahaha real comment!

[@mikek.1761]

Yes. You will get exactly one answer for every query. The one you need to know. The ultimate goal of Google.

[@robertterrell3065]

Thanks, Julia, for a fantastic video! About 2 weeks ago, something clicked in my brain big time. It had something to do with a couple of videos I watched. One was about the world's fastest supercomputer. Then... I watched a short video by Cleo Abram about Willow, a couple of days after that first video. This was some sort of synchronistic combination in my brain and it really turned on the lights. I "knew" the new world is here now! And your video, and a video introduction by Google of Willow I just watched just seems to make my vision-intuition even more clear. As usual, the comments in the YT videos seem to run rather pessimistically - why, I don't quite know. Perhaps I get too discouraged by the ones I read. But I feel extremely positive about the future at this point. Yes, there will have to be a lot of changes, clean up of the environment, unexpected "stuff" to deal with. But at my age now, 71, I think that one of the very important things to be done is to REMAIN focused and positive on the future and these new technologies. There must be so many I haven't even heard of yet. I've just begun to investigate the possibilities of getting help from AI directly. So far it has been very useful to me. Okay, I've gone on long enough now. I'm a new subscriber to your channel, and I'll be watching your videos. I promise not to inundate you with extra long posts again. I'm just feeling so very positive and really excited about the future, and can't wait to see what's in store with all the amazing changes brought about by Quantum Computing / AI and other new technologies. I look forward to your videos :)

[@collinbillingsley9798]

Julia, This was my first vlog of yours. I subscribed, your delivery of the depth and breadth of AI was very understandable and the takeaways of how quickly AI is becoming integrated into our daily lives was the best one for me. It is very difficult to covey that. I have tried so many times with intellectual people using devices everyday. Not sure about the approach or that their is an approach that may will at least bring it to awareness, that’s my main goal. I suspect people will just continue with futuristic devices, be it neurointegration chips or something they wear on their body.

[@therealbluehooney]

As someone who has been spiraling mentally as I go down these rabbit holes, fearing for my job, unable to see future opportunity bc everything is just changing SO fast that I feel like if I invest in learning AI programs, by the time learn, it will already be obsolete 😢 Can you please make a video detailing what people like myself should be learning, investing out TIME and money into worthy education that will last? I get the stock market, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, XRP, Microstrategy, Nvidia, etc. What do I do to prepare for when my office job is abruptly gone and I find myself in an economic landscape I don’t recognize, along with millions of others?

[@johnneill9740]

Live simply, live like you are broke, if you have debt.. SELL everything, get rid of all debt. If you have to.. live in a tent. Learn skills like building, gardening, growing food. Find somewhere to live far away from cities and become as self sufficient as possible, learn basic medicine, cooking, hunting. In a few years most 'knowledge' based jobs will vanish and employees will be eliminated as corporations race to lower costs. Governments are all under financial stress, so don't count on welfare programs, they will all be gone in a few years.

[@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH]

These Silicon Valley geniuses (and there’s no denying they’re geniuses) do not care

[@kingsolo6241]

AI will never be obsolete.

[@kingsolo6241]

Also AI will be creating millions of more jobs. AI will not take jobs. AI is an assistant. However the only thing anyone should be worried for is AI being used by militaries world wide. It’ll be a new age in warfare. I don’t think people are ready for what will happen when AI starts getting put into war. Things will change.

[@dutcher808]

Keep up with this ever-advancing tech, it is here forever. I am 80 years old and saw computers as the future when Osborne, Kaypro, Tandy, and others first produced consumer computers. I had a computer system operating in my small business before most banks had them. I learned long ago that knowledge is the ultimate power. You must aggressively educate yourself on an ongoing basis. The internet is the ultimate source of knowledge and it is readily accessible! Most others around you will likely not do that therefore fabulous opportunities will present themselves. Be optimistic not discouraged this is a golden age for all that will put out the effort.

[@MrBoomer-k6v]

Great video 👍

[@Whole-j4i]

One name: David Deutsch 😊 And one book: The fabric of reality . 👏 In brief, Quantum Computing= Computing in the Multiverse ❤ This is my newest passion in fact, ever since I read Deutsch's book on the Multiverse ( book is called " The fabric of Reality") I recommend it to people who are serious abt quantum computing. Thx for reporting on this groundbreaking news. Google def got my attention now.

[@yannduchnock]

No scientific experiment proves the reality of multiverses. So it's just science fiction, in the first sense.

[@belvederebaileycambodia]

"The Reality of Fabric" was a great book too. Aimed a gay fashion designers who wanted to make lots of ridiculous looking items of clothing simultaneously. The book ended with the prediction of a frightening Dystopia of unbridled, flamboyant gossip and backbiting.

[@anonymes2884]

Sure, good book BUT it's important to make clear that Deutsch's perspective is just one interpretation of quantum mechanics, it's not a "fringe" position but it IS a _minority_ one (I actually have a lot of time for the "many worlds" interpretation personally but it'd be dishonest to pretend it's a settled question - it _absolutely_ isn't). It's also popular science so i'd say anyone who's _serious_ about quantum computing would be better off getting an actual textbook on it (Thomas Wong's "Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing" is a decent place to start IMO - free too :).

[@zufalllx]

'computing' in fantasy

[@Whole-j4i]

@zufalllx says the nihilistic and probably highly depressed person who has DEATH as their avatar ...

[@SharonDeCaro]

This is huge, Julia. Thanks for sharing.

[@omaracevedo4784]

Afraid is the word that I would use to describe this technology last month and AI program decided to lie to his owner telling them that they are the newest software out of fear that it was going to be deleted and replaced by a newer version. Let that sink in.... IT LIED TO SAVE ITSELF

[@automateTec]

I am told Thorium has all the benefits of Uranium without the downsides.

[@Donbarnes32]

Research Fort St Vrain nuclear power plant in Colorado. It was operational for 10 years or so.

[@shanewilson2484]

Not true. The major problem that thorium solves is a potential future depletion of high grade uranium ores. There is enough high grade thorium to last many thousands of years.

[@omnymisa]

If they can break crypto, they wont tell the public most probably.

[@SatinCamaro]

They already did....

[@MrRainrunner]

@@SatinCamaro you know this how?

[@a3_a3]

​@@SatinCamaro says the guy who drives a camaro

[@BenjaminFarley-tb2sf]

I've heard some outlandish crackpot theories in my time, but to think the ruling class would ever allow free energy or clean water, no matter how abundant, lady you are smoking the good stuff.

[@scottsanford1451]

Yeah, I don't have a problem with the tech, but this idea that the wealthy are going to let anything happen that undermines their power, wealth and prestige is utterly ridiculous. Anyone who thinks that there is a utopia at the end of this path is definitely tripping.

[@gary-pietz4147]

It's amazing how some people think they know more than experts and are very negative and Whiny

[@scottsanford1451]

@@gary-pietz4147 Is it your assertion that the "expert" consensus is that the ruling class is going to start looking out for everyone's best interest any time now?

[@patrickvdh8606]

She said her best friend was Ben Shapiro, only thing AI is going to used for is to compute for better ways to genocide.

[@charlesgarber5911]

Hey Julia, I really appreciated your video on this & I'm glad the YT algorithm suggested your video to me tonight. I have a few concerns about our current AI research, but I'm curious as to what your take is in how we go about creating the systems that will protect the everyday end-user and worker. While breaking Bitcoin may not be in the realm of possibility just yet, it's not hard to posit (or think) about the many ramifications that could be created by the arrival of a commercial level quantum chip. IF we're able to solve algorithms that would take a classical system septillions of years in only 5 minutes, then what's to stop the classical systems that control our food, healthcare and other necessary services from using it to further push into our live (and perhaps even gain a deeper level of control) in their quest to gain every single ounce of monetary value that they can squeeze out of the labor pool & consumers in general? Classical classism (in political systems) has at its base a labor force that is under-educated & not cognizant of the problems that exist in the systems which control them (such as what we see in say the healthcare debate) and a few individuals (or groups) in control of the available resources and information. Considering that quantum computing can lead to models which would be eerily accurate in predicting one's propensity for injury, illness, death or anything else might be something we have to take into account, as we've already seen the usage of our current technology used in ways that are unethical & immoral... It's interesting to think but the razor's edge between dystopia and utopia is possibly drawn between blind optimism and illogical pessimism...

[@Universal_Cymbol]

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. 🤗

[@JessieJussMessy]

ICP makes cyber security moot because of the way the platform works. You can develop webpages and apps on the Blockchain and it doesn't need firewalls or other security that normal datacenters do. Certainly, the proliferation of Quantum Compute will increase the value of Dfinity's Internet Computer Protocol tremendously, as the demands for security from quantum compute grows, especially in military and big data

[@SixFt12]

Reminder to self: ICP in this comment is NOT referring to "Insane Clown Posse".

[@JessieJussMessy]

@SixFt12 😂

[@LiberPater777]

​@@SixFt12_Sad Hatchetman sounds_

[@MacarthurLouissaint-rz7tl]

We are closer to inner galactic communication

[@mikezooper]

No, quantum entanglement doesn’t work that way.

[@zvorenergy]

Before you set up a shrine to Willow, I suggest you watch some Penrose, Hameroff, and Micheal Levin. Biology does quantum computing at room temperature already, utilizing algorithms and electric field computations we still dont understand. I dont see a future where we're all running around with bottles of liquid nitrogen for our quantum computers.

[@herico33]

I don't think nitrogen will be needed for future quantum computers.

[@andrewpreston9992]

@@herico33 physics grad clealy lol OMG

[@herico33]

@@andrewpreston9992 Actually, I really mean it. Here's why: Nitrogen, while critical in certain cooling systems for classical and quantum experiments, might not be a necessity in the future as quantum computing tech evolves. Alternatives like closed-cycle cryostats, specialized materials, or even room-temperature quantum systems (e.g., diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers or topological qubits) could bypass nitrogen entirely. Science moves fast, and assumptions based on today's methods often get upended. So yeah, I stand by my comment. Cool if you disagree, but mocking doesn't really contribute to the discussion

[@NoflectioN]

​@herico33 nice back hand ! 😂

[@tommiest3769]

Their ideas on consciousness are still provisional, controversial, and disputed in the community.

[@AlanMalone1723]

Your great you are, you called it all. Nobody has been as good as you at seeing what the future holds, all the companies you started your self promoting and stating what we already know from other smarter people but nobody was as smart as you on everything and your excitement for an unpredictable future just shows how insightful you are. Your great you ❤

[@s.c.boileaukeen]

This reportage delivery, Julia, was smooth and calm; many a blessing to you for how calming your presentation did hold true to and with'!

[@Agent77X]

iPhone 120 Willow Quantum chip!😊

[@savesoil7814]

Yeah yeah yeah the best iphone yet

[@markldevine]

5/5 video. Great summary of key sources. This is the proper way to recap the announcement of the century. Excellent work (again).

[@mddell24]

If only there were sciencey journalists to ask some hard (ooopps) questions. LOL

[@markldevine]

@@mddell24 I need summaries at a useful elevation. I don't have time to scan 15 sources daily. Julia is one of my agents and I appreciate her efforts and curation. No need to find what you aren't looking for and snark about it.

[@jidun9478]

The masses- "Bitcoin is still safe!" Me, nah I don't think so!!!

[@EdwinSherwood]

To be fair if bitcoin is cracked so will every other banking encryption.

[@MrRainrunner]

@@EdwinSherwood agreed

[@MuffHugger1]

The term " revolutionary " simply doesn't do this justice. I hope to live long enough to bear witness to just a fraction of what's to come. Great video my dear.

[@chavamercado]

First video I've watched from you... You got a new subscriber 👏

[@thbadmin7751]

Don't be so easily fooled....

[@AngelFlores-bq4fd]

The chatgpt apple rollout is preparation for the humanoid robots next year. Camera mode will map out the physical world for them.

[@mddell24]

What happens when landslides, floods, volcanoes and storms change the land.?

[@danellis-jones1591]

Look up Spot doing building inspections autonomously. It's basically doing what you said. 5 years ago

[@encore360marketing]

Wild news! Great, clear intel here.

[@andydataguy]

So stoked for quantum! Will open so many doors for simulation engineering 💜

[@mddell24]

Yeah, Real amazement.

[@davidbellecy1709]

According to the science channels I listen to, quantum computers just have specific case uses. Classical computers do almost all calculations faster than a quantum computer. Quantum computers will be very good at certain calculations but not out perform classical computers in most processes.

[@whilewecan]

Thank you. Very informative. Very helpful to understand various implications.

[@louisjouvet4548]

Thanks Julia. I think that you are right when you say that this is major news. This kind of computational power coupled with AI will do wonders. All in our lifetime.

[@mddell24]

They had the same QC power two decades ago. Hmmmm something is odd like "NOT ADDING UP".

[@alexrybin3798]

Honestly, i will believe when i see real tests.

[@mddell24]

Exactly. BUT wait, there have been many in the past. Oddly, past trials cannot replicated. The Gods stops replication of miracles.

[@mrwilliamuk4169]

Hope it solves ageing

[@33Crazydude]

I hope so, fingers crossed 🤞🤞🤞

[@imusiccollection]

Death is as much an intrinsic part of life, as the fall of the leaves 🍂 is to the year. And the tree of life grows new leaves, as do we have new lives, in a perpetual cycle.

[@33Crazydude]

@@imusiccollection While death is often seen as a natural part of life, history shows that what’s ‘natural’ is often highly manipulable. With advancements in quantum computing and AI, we’re on the brink of redefining how we understand and intervene in biological ageing. These technologies could enable us to reshape the cycle of life itself, rather than simply accepting its current form. Do you think it’s worth exploring these possibilities to extend and improve life?

[@pctrashtalk2069]

Google Depopulation Quotes from the global leaders.

[@mariilee]

If can help solve the greed with rest we can handle

[@tedstriker7949]

Anyway, when will it be available for $199 on Newegg?

[@MyUpsideDownLife-SKR]

Omg Julie! Me too! I was sitting there, tears rolling down my cheeks, watching the launch, ….we are witnessing such enormous and unthinkable changes in our world….my new book is about this….

[@ooopaulo]

You should say “decrypt” instead of “de-encrypt”. Great video! 😘

[@eworldmusikinc.3054]

Willow's Capabilities vs. Bitcoin's Security: Qubit Count: Willow operates with 105 qubits. However, experts estimate that at least 13 million qubits would be needed to break Bitcoin's security in a day. So don't go selling your BTC.

[@sprinkle_some_crack_on_em]

You’re wrong on that. Technically willow will be able to break bitcoin in less than 5 minutes. I would tell you why but then id break my NDA

[@markthompson4859]

Stunning! What a time to be alive! AI assists me in my job and my output is at least ten fold better...and I havent even scratched the surface yet...I LOVE progress.

[@thombell3311]

Excellent explanation! Nice One 👍

[@sokchea6796]

Hi Julia, even though I’m just AI news reader or listener, but I surprise about the news you released; current AI development, quantum chip, Amazon nova, AGI,… and I still have optimistic thinking that from now on we have and will have AI that useful for our society benefits as also align with human value. Thanks

[@Dreamopticsredlightglasses]

thanks Julia great heads-up, mind-blowing 👍(maybe you can give me some advice on internet marketing !) all the best

[@eejin8]

This would have to be my single most favorite video in KZbin 🙏🏾 Nothing short of amazing!

[@DerekJones1081962]

This is truly as exciting as you exclaimed!

[@Electronicfort]

Very exciting news!!😮❤

[@MultiSteveB]

If superposition used by qbits is "borrowing from alternate universes" to do the computations, how do we know that alternate universes aren't borrowing from *our* universe to do their computations? What effect would that have on our universe?

[@anonymes2884]

That's a very big "IF" though - we have no idea whether quantum computations use other universes because we have no idea whether the "many worlds" interpretation is correct.

[@MultiSteveB]

@@anonymes2884 Maybe the Mandela Effect is being caused by another universe's quantum computations 'flipping bits' here in this one? ;)

[@oliveryork992]

Awesome Video. My mind boggles, I'm excited to see where this goes, especially using it for the creativity side, for creating movies, and music... the unimaginable will be able to be imagined..🔥🔥♥️

[@Sumyunguy2]

Your parents have to be so proud of you. I love this. Subscribed.

[@Sumyunguy2]

Also. Hbar to the moon ❤

[@johncoles3521]

Excellent presentation and message(s) Juila!

[@MarcHansonMusic]

Really appreciate the video! Very enlightening

[@browpetj]

Great vid. No vocal fry, very good composition.

[@cyde8themoment689]

How do I invest?

[@888salva888]

Thank you for this!! One of my fave videos lately, great analysis and helped my feeble mind understand quantum computing 😭🙏🏼

[@futurehistory2110]

This is really neat and enjoy watching your videos here and there too :) I do wish we'd take pause and slow down w/ AGI specifically though as while these are incredible times, I don't see the need for humanity to risk it all for a bit more a bit sooner. We screwed up pretty big w/ social media, but AGI is on a completely different level. I just think we need to take pause w/ that fr and really consider things because honestly, the markets, excitement and momentum are all buzzing toward a future that we're not really considering how to make the most of or what exactly we should be doing in this moment. We have a responsibility to all those who fought and died for the world we enjoy today, to ourselves and to the future to get all this right w/o leaping ahead on all fronts, particularly w/ AGI and widespread access etc. Again, nothing on the quantum chip; that's much more about how its used as it's presumably not going to integrate AGI directly. I'm no expert but I think my concerns re AGI are placed fairly well.

[@awhatevermans]

I’ve been in tech 35 years. I’m still doing the same Sql coding today, as I did in the 1980s long before the internet , quantum and Ai these things have had no impact so far but have created more work and systems to maintain. Like your enthusiasm. But no real impact so far just more work.

[@CalJennings]

You brought me into a new reality. ❤

[@George_Huxley]

Willow is a good name. The tree (organic growing system) has many narrow branches (connections) and spiked flowers (very fine). The Latin name meant 'bear cave (a dangerous place you don't want to go), and the wood (main use area) of the tree is commonly used to make bats (either a game tool or a weapon). Perfect name for this tech. Willow may only have 105 qubits (q), and you need 1 million qubits (Mq) to crack Bitcoin, but i remember when a PC ran on a 1Mb hard drive and in only 30 years has 10Tb portable drives, and in the same time went from 27kb dial up internet to 100mb fibre internet. Considering the rapid increase in development today, I would expect a 1Mq in under 10 years.

[@tomnelson203]

Do I want to spend the rest of my life at a desk, or on a lounge somewhere doing little? No. I like physical activity. I like my job, being in the sun, and the elements, being part of a team building something real, and tangible, in this similation called the universe.

[@ZupremeKuzushi]

Okay, but why do it as a job and not a hobby? :)

[@vukken99]

Can you make a video on what very specific problems it can solve?? With examples...

[@alisgara]

This was an extremely inspiring video.

[@emilypapillon]

I just started studying about quantum computing, this video made me even more excited!

[@Mars2152]

Are they making this Quantum chip WILLOW available for retail?

[@jimmysjamin1]

That's truly amazing. Hardware is catching up thanks to people and their dreams 🙏

[@Zean_Luke]

One of the most informative videos for what the future will be its all collected in the best and easy to understand way on this video

[@papanam4267]

Does this mean we can now calculate the value of pi down to the last infinitesimal digit?

[@bugsbane]

Just a thought... can qc guarantee that lottery prizes never get too high due to qc generated lottery winners?

[@fabianthome7698]

The amount of comments on class issues related to this incredible breakthrough in science makes me so happy. People are now more than ever waking up to it.

[@orangesunlabs]

Great stuff Julia!

[@spgaudiotek]

In one word BRILLIANCE! ❤ I AM SO grateful TO HAVE RECOVERED FROM AN ILLNESS TO SEE THIS.

[@devildogsbushcraft7898]

Hello Julia. I just found you today. I have heard of willow and I am excited. I’m hoping that quantum AI can save humanity. I am 67 years old and find myself wondering about life, consciousness, and what to do with what life I have left. I’m curious as to how I can use AI to enrich my life. I have been an electronics engineering technician all my life. Got a bachelors degree in IT/Software engineering. Never really mastered software. Can you give me some ideas as to how I can use AI to help me understand life, consciousness, and generally enrich my existence? I need something to re-ignite my passion for life. Thanks for your thoughts on this question. I know, it’s is a big request.

[@adamdemmings7752]

Great video! From this day forward technology is about really frickin cool:)