Willow Benchmark Takes Septillion Years

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.

A screenshot shows a passage praising Willow’s astonishing benchmark performance, claiming that a computation taking under five minutes would require today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ years. The joke is the absurdly huge timescale and the leap from quantum computing performance to the multiverse theory associated with David Deutsch. It is used as a reaction to something impossibly slow, exaggerated, or mind-boggling. EN: A screenshot shows a passage praising Willow’s astonishing benchmark performance, claiming that a computation taking under five minutes would require today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ years. The joke is the absurdly huge timescale and the leap from quantum computing performance to the multiverse theory associated with David Deutsch. It is used as a reaction to something impossibly slow, exaggerated, or mind-boggling.

• @gentoomemes / 15146 2024-12-10