Author: Stephen Katte, CoinTelegraph; Compiled by: Bai Shui, Golden Finance

Google’s quantum artificial intelligence team released its new quantum computing chip, which can solve computing problems in less than five minutes, and It would take one of the best supercomputers about a billion years to solve the problem.

Hartmut Neven, head of quantum artificial intelligence at Google, said in a blog on December 9 that the chip, called Willow, can exponentially correct errors and handle certain calculations at incredible speeds.

"This incredible number exceeds the time scales known in physics and far exceeds the age of the universe," he said.

"This confirms the idea that quantum computing occurs in many parallel universes, consistent with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first proposed by David Deutsch," Neven added.

According to Neven, the team's second major achievement using Willow is its ability to exponentially reduce errors as it scales using more qubits, cracking the code of experts in the field." The "key challenge" of quantum error correction that has been pursued for nearly 30 years.

“Using our latest advances in quantum error correction, we were able to cut the error rate in half. In other words, we achieved an exponential reduction in the error rate.”

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Google's quantum artificial intelligence team said that their new quantum computing chip Willow performed well on multiple indicators. Source: Google

“This historic achievement is known in the industry as ‘sub-threshold’ – enabling an increase in the number of qubits while reducing error rates,” Neven added.

Qubits are the basic unit of information and the key to quantum computing; the more qubits, the stronger the computing power; however, adding more qubits increases the risk of errors.

If the error rate is too high, the calculations become unreliable and produce erroneous results, making the technology difficult to implement at scale.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement to It has practical application value in battery design.

Source: Sundar Pichai

Google hopes to one day develop a computer that can perform complex, error-correcting calculations Computer, whose quantum computing roadmap shows the company hitting 2 of 6 milestones in 2023.

There have long been concerns that advances in quantum computing would be a turning point for the crypto industry. Computers capable of breaking encryption could expose user funds to thieves in large quantities and quickly.

Kevin Rose, a technology entrepreneur and former senior product manager at Google, said in a statement to X on December 9 that Willow is far from a threat to encryption.

According to Rose, breaking Bitcoin’s encryption algorithm would require a quantum computer with approximately 13 million qubits to decrypt within 24 hours.

"By comparison, Google's Willow chip, while a significant advance, only has 105 qubits," he said.

Source: Kevin Rose

“We still have a long way to go. Nonetheless, This is still a major leap forward in quantum computing. ”

Meanwhile, David Marcus, CEO of payments platform Lightspark, said he didn’t think most people were “fully aware of it.” Understand” the significance of Google’s breakthrough.

Marcus said this means "post-quantum cryptography and encryption technology needs to start moving."

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a way to mitigate Ethereum Fang Quantum’s method of calculating risk, he explained in a March X article, a simple hard fork could upend this problem.

Buterin said the blockchain would have to be hard forked and users would have to download new wallet software, but few would lose funds.