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"Supremacía cuántica" del futuro
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Atomic-Nuclear
Cosmology
Particle Physics
Source
Agenda Pública, El País
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Raúl Jiménez Tellado, ICREA professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences and Luis Moreno Fernández, research professor at the IInstituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (CSIC) comment in this article on "Public Agenda" of "El País" the news about the Quantum supremacy solution fear part of the google portal and analyze the possible implications.
"Un anuncio reciente de Google ha pasado casi inadvertido para los medios, las redes sociales y el común de las gentes. El gigante de internet dice haber alcanzado la supremacía cuántica, algo que implicaría efectos sociales precisamente cuánticos en un futuro a la vuelta de la esquina. La revolución que proporcionaría una computadora de estas características sería la de poder realizar un número de operaciones tan enorme que podrían resolverse problemas que la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y la búsqueda de patrones no puede llevar a cabo (todavía) en el momento presente. De ser cierto lo que afirma Google, las consecuencias serían ciertamente transcendentales, como ha señalado en un artículo reciente John Preskill, el reputado físico de Caltech que acuñó el término de supremacía cuántica. Empero, se ha producido de manera fulminante una declaración del gigante informático IBM negando tal conquista tecnológica... (+)"
Raúl Jiménez Tellado is co-author of the book Democracias robotizadas, where they talks about the role that machine learning, artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics and quantum computing will have in our societies. The book focuses on a very precise description of what artificial intelligence really is and how this will change our future societies.
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