{"id":24344,"date":"2023-03-22T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/google-making-breakthroughs-much-bigger-than-chatgtp"},"modified":"2023-03-23T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T09:40:27","slug":"google-making-breakthroughs-much-bigger-than-chatgtp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/google-making-breakthroughs-much-bigger-than-chatgtp","title":{"rendered":"Google making breakthroughs much bigger than ChatGTP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>The hype surrounding the rise of ChatGPT and the supposed ground Google is losing to Microsoft and OpenAI in the search wars has overshadowed more important developments in computing, progress which will have far greater implications than which website serves up better tax advice.<\/b><\/p>\n

Quantum computing is the holy grail of scientists and researchers, but it\u2019s still decades away from reality. Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, however moved the ball down the field last month with news that it found ways to ameliorate one of the biggest problems facing the nascent field: accuracy.<\/p>\n

To date, all computing is done on a binary scale. A piece of information is stored as either one or zero, and these binary units (bits) are clumped together for further calculation. We need four bits to store the number eight (1000 in binary), for example. It\u2019s slow and clunky, but at least it\u2019s simple and accurate. Silicon chips have been holding and processing bits for almost seven decades.<\/p>\n

Quantum bits \u2014 qubits \u2014 can store data in more than two forms (it can be both 1 and 0 at the same time). That means larger chunks of information can be processed in a given amount of time. Among the many downsides is that the physical manifestation of a qubit requires super-cold temperatures \u2014 just above zero degrees Kelvin \u2014 and are susceptible to even the minutest amount of interference such as light. They\u2019re also error prone, which is a big problem in computing.<\/p>\n

In a paper published in Nature last month, Google claims to have made a huge breakthrough in an important sub-field called quantum error correction. Their approach is quite simple. Instead of relying on individual physical qubits, scientists store information across many physical qubits but then view this collection as a single one (called a logical qubit).<\/p>\n

Google had theorised that clumping a larger number of physical qubits to form a single logical qubit would reduce error rate. In its research paper, outlined in a blog post by CEO Sundar Pichai, the team found that a logical qubit formed from 49 physical qubits did indeed outperform one comprised of 17.<\/p>\n

Quantum supremacy<\/b><\/p>\n

In reality, dedicating 49 qubits to the handling of just a single logical one sounds inefficient and even overkill. Imagine storing your photos on 49 hard drives just to ensure that, collectively, a single hard drive is error free. But given the vast potential of quantum computing, even such baby steps amount to significant progress.<\/p>\n

More importantly, it gives the broader scientific community a basis from which to build on this knowledge to further advance related fields including materials science, mathematics and electrical engineering which will all be needed to make an actual quantum computer reality. The hope of building a system that can solve a problem which no current machine could feasibly manage is called quantum supremacy1.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, Google said it completed a test in 200 seconds for a task that would take a conventional supercomputer thousands of years, proof that we\u2019re on the path to quantum supremacy.<\/p>\n

But like artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, proving they work is only one part of the puzzle. High accuracy and low error rates \u2014 something recent chatbots are prone to \u2014 remain elusive. Improvement on this front is a major goal for developers of both technologies, with OpenAI this week saying its new GPT-4 is 40% more likely to produce factual results than its predecessor.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a supercooled computer crunching data isn\u2019t as fun as a digital assistant that can write limericks or draft a school essay. But in future these breakthroughs will be as comparable as the entertainment value of television versus the world-changing feat of landing a human on the moon.<\/p>\n

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