{"id":201254,"date":"2024-12-11T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/google-deepminds-breakthrough-alphaqubit-closing-in-on-the-holy-grail-of-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:27:54","slug":"google-deepminds-breakthrough-alphaqubit-closing-in-on-the-holy-grail-of-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/google-deepminds-breakthrough-alphaqubit-closing-in-on-the-holy-grail-of-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind\u2019s Breakthrough \u201cAlphaQubit\u201d Closing in on the Holy Grail of Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-deepminds-breakthrough-alphaqubit-closing-in-on-the-holy-grail-of-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dream of building a practical, fault-tolerant quantum computer has taken a significant step forward.<\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough study recently published in <em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08148-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Nature<\/a><\/em>, researchers from<a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/?s=deepmind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Google DeepMind<\/a> and Google Quantum AI said they have developed an AI-based decoder, AlphaQubit, which drastically improves the accuracy of quantum error correction\u2014a critical challenge in quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work illustrates the ability of machine learning to go beyond human-designed algorithms by learning from data directly, highlighting machine learning as a strong contender for decoding in quantum computers,\u201d researchers wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of building a practical, fault-tolerant quantum computer has taken a significant step forward. In a breakthrough study recently published in Nature, researchers from Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI said they have developed an AI-based decoder, AlphaQubit, which drastically improves the accuracy of quantum error correction\u2014a critical challenge in quantum computing. \u201cOur work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}