• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wow, that is insane! But it’s also amazing that it has been able to solve problems that humans haven’t been able to solve in over 50 years.

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      4 months ago

      What are you talking about? Most of these things are experimental and none of them have solved a single fucking thing.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        From the linked article

        In 2020, the artificial intelligence (AI) software AlphaFold demonstrated that it could predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence2, a 50-year old grand challenge in biology.

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          4 months ago

          They did not say that was achieved with quantum computing

          Eta - here is a more suitable quote from the article:

          For instance, a 2020 demonstration showed that a quantum computer could perform a math puzzle using 50,000 times less energy than the world’s most powerful supercomputer at the time.