The company shows off a mix of error-resistant hardware and error correction. Following up on Microsoft’s announcement of a qubit […]
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Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics
Skip to content Stronger evidence for a hypothetical quasiparticle, plus actual processing hardware. Microsoft’s Majorana 1 processor, the first to […]
AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics
Skip to content Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky. Enzymes are amazing catalysts. These […]
Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation
The researchers showed that this setup allowed them to teleport with a specific gate operation (controlled-Z), which can serve as […]
To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
There’s a difference between knowing a word and knowing a concept. Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but […]
Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers
The net result is a much faster operation involving far fewer gates. That’s important because errors in quantum hardware increase […]
Researchers use AI to design proteins that block snake venom toxins
Skip to content It’s a good example of how computer developments can be used for practical problems. It has been […]
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator
The computer science behind translating speech from 100 source languages. In 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish […]
Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math
The problem is that this cascading requires massive parallel computations that, when done on standard computers, take tons of energy […]
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate. It’s pretty easy to see the problem here: […]