researcher on quantum error correction
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what a nightmare
Banger AI takeover story
lesswrong.com/posts/3375SZNG…
"We have entire institutions that were supposed to be focused on innovation... that cannot adapt meaningfully to a world with AI."
sadly true
AI is an apocalypse in the sense that it reveals all. Or it reveals much.
We have mathematicians arguing that solving the problems that they themselves identified as the goals (in their funding applications and talks) never mattered.
We have the finest literary people in France who were collectively fooled by a novel written by AI. None of them would ever accept AI authorship.
We have been told for decades that without copyright, there could be no progress... and all of a sudden, we have these machines producing copyright-free content, often breaking new ground.
We have entire institutions that were supposed to be focused on innovation... that cannot adapt meaningfully to a world with AI.
We are left wondering. What is actual progress and what is mere signalling. How people react to AI tells us much.
this is how it starts
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revenue grows 12x per year. @paulg would approve I think!
agreed, but this already targets the initial proposal of boson sampling where the hardness was established in the diluted regime.
wondering whether the whole field would have accelerated so fast if such a paper had appeared immediately after the initial AA proposal.
Interesting development for quantum supremacy:
this paper gives a polynomial classical algorithm for the original boson sampling proposal of Aaronson-Arkhipov for any constant-fraction loss, ie any implementation without fault tolerance (1/2)
arxiv.org/abs/2610.27065
1) This is remarkable.
2) If mathematicians can find such simplified proofs (with the help of AI) so soon after the first proof was published, I don't see why future AI couldn't do that on its own in the near future.
Awesome work!
And they even use our Frontier decoder ;-)
Congrats to quantinuum on seeing color code lifetime improve 12x going from d=3 to d=5 and ~12x again from d=5 to d=7: cdn.prod.website-files.com/6…
Notes:
- This suggests practical error rates reached at d≈21; need more qubits
- The 20ms cycle time is brutally slow; need more speed
I don’t know where we got the idea that humans were super smart.
Reading paper reviews these days and seeing a lot of "under the stated assumption". Are there any human reviewers who really write this?
imagine in 6 months, when the next internal models at frontier labs will write these 5-page proofs from the book directly
It may surprise outsiders that many academic papers can be considered as curiosities. But this is a small price to pay to get true advances sometimes.
It may surprise those outside number theory to learn that, for decades, people had written several papers that assumed a Siegel zero exists:
Famously, in 1982 Heath-Brown proved the twin prime conjecture in this hypothetical world.
Now in light of the Siegel zero disproof, a collection of the literature has now become something of a historical curiosity.
londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wi…
