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Researchers Created 'Quantum Artificial Life' For the First Time (vice.com)
From a report: For the first time, an international team of researchers has used a quantum computer to create artificial life -- a simulation of living organisms that scientists can use to understand life at the level of whole populations all the way down to cellular interactions. With the quantum computer, individual living organisms represented at a microscopic level with superconducting qubits were made to "mate," interact with their environment, and "die" to model some of the major factors that influence evolution. The new research, published in Scientific Reports on Thursday, is a breakthrough that may eventually help answer the question of whether the origin of life can be explained by quantum mechanics, a theory of physics that describes the universe in terms of the interactions between subatomic particles. Modeling quantum artificial life is a new approach to one of the most vexing questions in science: How does life emerge from inert matter, such as the "primordial soup" of organic molecules that once existed on Earth?
Incredible! :)
Seriously, this is getting utterly ridiculous and not in any funny sense. That whole "quantum computing" thing is nonsense, get over it. And stop to find "new" applications that nobody needs and that work better on a classical computer anyways.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
like blockchain and bookface integration and self-driving to get enough words for BS Bingo, /s
I didn't rtfa, but I'm guessing this isn't much more than conways game on a quantum computer. Ooh ahh! Fart.
You can always tell that somebody is clueless about the topic, when they act like being alive is some kind of yes/no on/of switch thing. Like you are either alive or you aren't.
When in reality, there is every shade in-between.
organelles
viruses
prions
crystals
All things that are somewhere in-between.
The whole struggle with this "problem" only stems from outdated religious views of us being something "special". We aren't like those black people, but "special". We aren't revolving around the sun, dhe universe revolves around us, because we are "special". We aren't animals, we are "special". We have a "soul", things don't, ... we are "special". We're alive, things aren't, ... we are "special"!
No, we are not. We are just a chain of causes and effects that fell into a non-trivial self-sustaining state. Self-sustaining chemical reactions. That happen to work against entropy, in their local environment. And that usually grows and reproduces, but not always. That's about it.
There is no magical "soul" or "mind" existing independently of the universe.
And consciousness and self-awareness is not a binary thing either. There is every state in-between us and a dead rock, and there easily can be lifeforms that will be *more* conscious and self-aware than us. It’s a gradient too.
And it’s just an artifact of how the brain works. An illusion, that makes us feel extra-special.
So "life" does not need anything special to happen. Just the laws of nature and random chance. That's it.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
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With the quantum computer, individual living organisms represented at a microscopic level with superconducting qubits were made to "mate," interact with their environment, and "die" to model some of the major factors that influence evolution.
I'm sure there's a reason evolution goes beyond such a simplified view of the world.
as of yet there is no process known to duplicate the free human spirit..
This...is technobabble.
Insofar as life started by bootstrapping from inanimate complex molecules, it isn't a difficult concept, and requires discrete units of atoms and molecules with real properties.
There's nothing directly quantum required as life is all about chemistry at a very gross scale above the quantum.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Quantum artificial life may be both about life, and about death. You only know when you observe it.
Life at the quantum level
Congratulations, I bet that was hard eh?
I don't see any relevance between the claims of the summary or the vice article and the abstract. Running a genetic algorithm on a quantum computer is surely a different thing than running an accurate models of primitive bio molecules on a quantum computer simulating its chemical behaviour, a feat which we can't do yet with the current machines. Right?
I call it cranking a steamer. The steam is strong on this one. I think there are more chaotic fluctuations in the poo steam than 5 cubits could model. And my life is profoundly influences by the beauty of that steam. I really don't think they can model life.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
a quantum Shrodinger's cat!
I always make a reference of their experiment when I am at a mall where those glass sealed ecospheres are sold. I think, âoeWith a battery powered arc and a better guess as to Earthâ(TM)s early atmosphere, and I could have some friends...if I lived long enough!â
Would were! Should is! Could be! And live a hundred times three.
You would just scan the entire neural structure of the brain, and the electrical and chemical sensitivity of every neuron and synapse, and recreate a brain made of neurons in the exact same state, with a speed quick enough that the state does not change during the process, and you'd have copied the person, the "mind", the "spirit", or whichever superstitious looney term you choose to use for it.
Someone ran Conway's game of life on an expensive quantum computer?
What were the results of this glorious achievement?
This was done with five noisy qubits. Everything that such a chip can do can be simulated at much higher quality on classical machines. Five quibits you could even simulate on your cell phone.
I am running a start-up that is exploring what kind of use you can get out of near term noisy quantum computers (50 qubits and beyond).
BS hype like this is not helping.