Andy Halliday

Their ability to charge faster with an electric version rather than a diesel version doesn't give them the opportunity to take even that small break that they do in those things.

Anyway, enough of quotes and enough referring around.

I get your point.

Encryption is a race, right?

Yeah.

You develop stronger and stronger encryption methods, and then you have the counter measure, which is, okay, we're going to figure out how to break your encryption.

And so it's a big test for the capacity of quantum computing, which previous to this announcement meant that you'd have to have like 9 million qubits on a quantum computer in order to break the existing encryption.

And now it's been shown that, and I think this is just an advance in the understanding of what it looks like.

Think how complex it must be to simulate the operation of a quantum computer in current supercomputers.

And so the quantum team at Google, literally called Google Quantum, has made a major advance here by applying supercomputing methods and math, deep math,

to determine that, no, it doesn't require that many qubits.

And that's an exposure of increased knowledge about just how the interplay among multiple qubits in a quantum computing system works, which is hard to understand for lay people like us.

And I'm sure equally hard, you know, for the most advanced mathematical minds and now assisted by AI.

So it's just we're marching forward with all of these measures of progress.

And encryption is one of the biggest tests of where it can happen.

And we're not close yet to having machines that could actually do that.

But we now understand that, you know, it's it's reachable.

And it's not clear whether you have to have them all on one chip or you could have…

cluster of... Gang together a whole bunch of them and parallel them together and they can break the encryption in maybe not nine minutes, but with the overhead of shuttling memory and all that, maybe it takes 30 minutes to break encryption.

No, I didn't see anything that said how – just the declaration, the clarification that we have no such machines yet that can get there.