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Any kind of summary or reference to know whether it is worth 1 hour of time?
Because when you consider the current stage of “quantum” any computing is better than it.
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They agree with you and they have a prototype chip.
And without being sure about what the prototype hardware and software they have developed, and without being an insider or expert I agree with them and you about the whimpering future of the quantum computer hypers.
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Since we all agree quantum is trash, let’s stick to the matter:
What “thermodynamic computing” means? What does it does and how? I won’t watch an hour video if it doesn’t start with answering these basic questions.
An engineering/science podcast shouldn’t be a game-of-thrones mystery series “wait till you see who wins the battle” with “click like and subscribe before you-re too bored to resist any longer!”
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As far as I can tell: They’re making an AI accelerator chip that uses analog physics (as opposed to digital transistors).
Their device will only be capable of running energy-based models.
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On quantum computers:
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Whats interesting about the physically inspired computing space is that every different kind of deivce has its own kind of natural set of algorithms that it can accererate, right? Because building a physics-based accelerator means your embedding some kind of math that you want the answer to in the dynamics of an analog system, right? And so when you build dramatically different devices, maybe like a quantum computer is really good at solving Schrodingers equation, or like a memristor array type of thing is really good at simulating memrisistor arrays. Our computer is really good at sampling from programmable distributions. So in a sense the point I’m trying to get at here is that there is room for a lot of different plays in thes space because every accelerator ends up being good at something different.
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