It was indeed a pretty impressive feat, except that IBM thinks Google is exaggerating its achievement by a huge margin. And by huge, we mean somewhere around 150,000,000 percent.Very proud that our @GoogleAI team has achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy after over a decade of work, as published in @Nature. Thank you to our collaborators in the research community who helped make this possible.https://t.co/yZUUbZsyA0
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 23, 2019
IBM’s Response to Google’s So-Called Quantum Supremacy
IBM had already disputed the magnitude of Google’s breakthrough earlier on Monday in what could be called a preemptive strike in the ongoing war of words. Specifically, IBM has dismissed Google’s claim that even the most powerful traditional (read: non-quantum) computer will take thousands of years to achieve what it did in a mere 200 seconds. According to IBM, Google is wrong to assume that the RAM storage in a conventional computer must be ultra-huge to pull off a calculation similar to the one solved by its quantum computer.![Google](https://beincrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ss_google.jpg.optimal.jpg)
IBM is disputing the claim that Google achieved quantum supremacy. According to IBM, Google essentially rigged the race.
— WIRED (@WIRED) October 22, 2019
“This threshold has not been met,” IBM says. https://t.co/znC31pK96j
Google Retorts
Unsurprisingly, Google refused to take IBM’s disguised criticism lying down and urged skeptics to experimentally verify their doubts. Two of the researchers involved in the project appeared in a press call, urging people to check their research data. They further urged the technology community to verify IBM’s calculation by running the data on the IBM Summit, the fastest supercomputer around today with a capacity capable of delivering up to 200 petaflops. The researchers also pointed out that even if they were to take IBM’s claims by the face value, it would still put the 54-qubit Sycamore processor way ahead of Summit with a score of 200 seconds to over two days. That, according to them, would suffice to have Google qualified for the “quantum supremacy” title.![Google](https://beincrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/shutterstock_quantum_computer.jpg.optimal.jpg)
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