"Quantum supremacy" has already been achieved by Google |

Google announced that it has already achieved “quantum supremacy” by building what could be called the most powerful computer in the world, which managed to solve in three minutes what a traditional computer would have taken hundreds of years.

It's about the quantum computing technology It can perform calculations that exceed the capacity of today's most powerful traditional computers millions of times, the Financial Times reported.

An article written by Google researchers states that its technology was able to perform "in three minutes and 20 seconds" a calculation that would take the most advanced and powerful traditional computer, the well-known Summit, approximately 10,000 years (sic).

The researchers claimed to have reached "quantum supremacy," the threshold where quantum computers perform calculations that were previously impossible, such as the one quoted.

"This dramatic acceleration with respect to all known classical algorithms provides an experimental realization of quantum supremacy in a computational task and announces the advent of a highly anticipated computer paradigm," the authors wrote. "As far as we know, this experiment marks the first calculation that can only be performed on a quantum processor."

The system can only perform a unique and highly technical calculation, according to the researchers, and the use of quantum machines to solve practical problems is still years away.

But Google researchers called it "a milestone towards large-scale quantum computing."

Scientists also predicted that the power of quantum machines would expand at a “double exponential rate,” compared to the exponential rate of the so-called “Moore's Law,” which governs the development of silicon chips in what they already call the "first era of computer science", for the current one.

Although "quantum supremacy" has been a long-awaited historical moment, researchers warn against oversizing it. Quantum computers are far from reaching daily life at the moment.