alt Hacker NewsThe whole title is a buzzword cluster, until proven otherwise.
Which tasks, in particular, does it do better? Not as in "it could do them better", but actually there are benchmarks. If they are, they are buried beneath marketing; if not - well, we have our answer.
What is "thinks like nature"? Spin systems, are no more (or less) nature than transistors.
That said, I am all for exploring various systems for computation and simulation - I think there is a lot to discover.
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otikik • today at 3:38 PM
Yeah, I was reminded of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator a little bit.
Yeah, I mean it's obviously meant to be a marketing pitch but it's not a very good one.
> The hardest computational problems are not waiting for faster chips – they are waiting for machines that compute in a fundamentally different way.
Surely they don't actually believe that, right? Like you say the benefits must be limited to specific shapes of problems (not all of "the hardest" ones), and the whole history of computing is about how faster chips is an excellent answer to difficult computational problems.