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phil
June 20th, 2013 at 6:39 am

Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines http://dlvr.it/3XsYYF 

 A mathematical problem that might have 2 to the power of n possible solutions — where n is a large number like 1024 — might take a traditional computer longer than the age of the universe to solve. A quantum computer, on the other hand, might solve the same problem in mere minutes because it quite literally operates across multiple dimensions simultaneously.

If you know anything about encryption, you probably also realize that quantum computers are the secret KEY to unlocking all encrypted files. As I wrote about last year here on Natural News, once quantum computers go into widespread use by the NSA, the CIA, Google, etc., there will be no more secrets kept from the government. All your files — even encrypted files — will be easily opened and read.

 The first system was a 128-qubit computer. Gen two is now a 512-qubit computer.  This does not mean the gen two system is merely four times more powerful than the gen one system. Thanks to the nature of qubits, it’s actually 2 to the power of 384 times more powerful (2³⁸⁴) than the gen one system. In other words, it out-computes the first D-Wave computer by a factor so large that you can’t even imagine it in your human brain.

It's a great, rambling article and some of the stuff he says sounds crazy but, to some extent, we're more COMFORTABLE believing it's crazy than letting ourselves think of the implications of this stuff.  Computers are now crossing the threshold of consciousness and clearly they are soulless.  Well, maybe not "clearly" but that's the current assumption and there is something a little creepy about putting soulless geniuses in charge of critical resources.  

I was with a friend of mine who does work on self-driving cars and he said to me "What happens when a car on a wet bridge is approaching a school bus and the car skids out of control and the computer calculates that safely braking the car to stop it from falling off the bridge is likely to kill more than one person on the bus?  The proper decision for the car to make is to commit suicide for the driver to save the people on the bus."  Those kinds of decisions will have to be made by someone, or something, thousands of times a day as we turn more and more of our lives over to machines.  

Speaking of machines.  Europe is back from lunch and finally switched on the buy/bots so game on for our long trades!