I just watched the 60 minutes segment from Sunday about quantum computing and I am now very in what these fuckers can do.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/quantum-computing-advances-60-minutes/Purported to be able to eventually reach speeds that are millions of times faster than today’s supercomputers.
So, it could break every encryption everywhere all at once or something rough ridin' nuts like that, and so the government is revamping encryption standards because they know this crap is coming. Apparently people think these things will be able to compute things that would have otherwise been impossible for traditional supercomputers to do even a 1000 years from now.
What the eff, man, this could get nuts.
We plug an AI into that, and give it access to training data in the form of every accessible piece of material connected to the internet in world, then it’s really just bound by the speed of internet connectivity. It’s going to read everything just as fast as the pipes can connect it.
I mean, this could eventually create real honest to goodness sentient consciousness. This path might be the prerequisite to AGI in our lifetimes.
What an interesting time to be alive!