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Comment Re:How very meat centric of you (Score 1) 13

What about computers programmed to learn from the environment? There internal attributes are not directly accessible and decodable to the programmers, i.e. you can't be entirely certain what the computer will do until it does it.

These artificial neural networks are of course on the level of primitive organisms, but the bio-mimicry so far did not reveal anything special about the neural wetware that it was copied from.

   

Submission + - Major Quantum Information Technology Breakthroughs

quax writes: Within the same week two major Quantum Information Technology milestones where announced: The Los Alamos National Labs unveiled that they've been operating a scalable quantum encrypted network for the last two years (link to original paper).

There have been commercial quantum encryption devices on the market for quite some time now, but these have been limited to point to point connections. Having a protocol that allows the seamless integration of quantum cryptography into the existing network stack raises this to an entirely different level.

Just days after this news came the announcement that the company D-Wave, that claims to ship the first quantum computing device, aced a test when their machine was put into direct comparison with conventional hardware. It wasn't even close. For the class of problems that the D-Wave machine is designed for, the next best algorithm on a regular CPU performed several thousand times worse.

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