IBM disses Google's claims of 'quantum supremacy'

Earlier today, Google made a huge announcement, stating that it had achieved 'quantum supremacy', by building a quantum computer that "can perform a task no classical computer can". Scientific journal Nature published the results of Google’s endeavors, in which the search giant explains that its Sycamore chip performed a computation in 200 seconds that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years, marking the start of a new computing era. In a blog post, headed 'What our quantum computing milestone means' Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains the difference between a quantum and classical computer thusly: A bit in a classical… [Continue Reading]