Google's Quantum AI Lab has acquired the D-Wave 2X technology, which is described as the first 'Quantum Computer,' featuring a 1,000-qubit quantum processor that is 100 million times faster than any computer out there.

The computer that lost in the contest with the quantum machine was running a code that had it solve the problem at hand using an algorithm similar to the one baked into the D-Wave chip.

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Google reported that quantum computing could make the artificial intelligence (AI) software so powerful that anything produced by current technology would seem like Stone Age devices in comparison.

According John Giannandrea, Google's Vice President of engineering said that the company is encountering troubles because there are some difficult problems that an ordinary computer cannot simply solve.

Google's quantum computer is promising but it will take a very long time until such computers will be commercialized in the market. Google is hoping that major companies out there will support this technology and use this for further technological development.

Google describes the conventional computers as classic students in a classroom.

Scientist said that the D-Wave 2X computer can only perform a limited set of quantum calculations. But today, Google revealed that its D-Wave computer can out perform a traditional desktop computer by 108 times - making it one hundred million times faster.

"This is 108 times faster than some specific classical algorithm on problems created to be very hard for that algorithm but easy for D-Wave," explained Google.

Meanwhile, regular computers can make calculations using only two bits, ones and zeroes. On the other hand, quantum computers computing systems use qubits, which possess a "superposition" allowing them be one and zero at the same time.

Scientists have been working on quantum computers for a while now, and they come up a two primary techniques, "quantum monte carlo" and "simulated annealing." Both are just simulated systems running on conventional hardware. Google's quantum computer (D-Wave) has attracted a lot of controversy. Many researchers claim that Google's chips are unable to utilize true quantum effects.

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