Technology

I checked out of the smartphone market a long time ago because I hate technology.

How are fold phones these days? Good? Or they a gimmick?

https://archive.is/ozhSq

Zuchongzhi 3.0 has a two-dimensional grid architecture and the qubits are coupled “via a dense network if 182 turntable couplers, enabling flexible two-qubit interactions across the chip” which uses a flip chip integration technique, where chips and bonded face to face. This method achieves high density interconnects, while not sacrificing signal loss. Its composition, sapphire substrait with a circuit of titanium-aluminum help to reduce electromagnet noise. Zuchongzhi has made extraordinary advancements, specifically in regard to Random Circuit Sampling(RSC).Random Circuit Sampling is a proof-of-concept task. The researches demonstrated that Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105 qubit supercomputing quantum processor, completed a complex computational task in mere seconds, according to the study. By comparison, the same task on the world’s most powerful super computer, Frontier, would take an estimated 6.4 billion years

One of the secrets to China's engineering success is its young people. In 2020, more than 3.5 million of the country's students graduated with degrees in science, technology, engineering and maths, better known as STEM.

That's more than any other country in the world - and Beijing is keen to leverage it. "Building strength in education, science and talent is a shared responsibility," Xi told party leaders last week.

The "good guy" from OpenAI, the Ash Ketchum to Sam Altman's Gary Oak, left OpenAI (a while back) to create a new lab/company called Safe Superintelligence. Here is a recent WSJ article about them: https://archive.is/mooDM

This is from their mission statement:

Superintelligence is within reach.

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time.

We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

Some factoids about them:

• They have raised $2 billion.
• Have about 20 employees.

• Candidates who secure an in-person interview are instructed to leave their phone in a Faraday cage, a container that blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals, before entering SSI’s offices, one of the knowledgeable people said.

• SSI operates as secretly as it can out of offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv.

• [Employees] are discouraged from mentioning SSI on their LinkedIn profiles

• Have not released anything. No research, no product, no nothing.

• Sutskever has told associates he isn’t developing advanced AI using the same methods he and colleagues used at OpenAI. He has said he has instead identified a “different mountain to climb” that is showing early signs of promise, according to people close to the company. [No, you cannot see it.]

Ponzi scheme or Mossad front?

https://archive.ph/NYTsM

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt1909