It's probably been prompted like this for similar break-throughs thousands of times.
Is it really that impressive that it's done this once? I imagine with enough tries, GPT-4 Turbo and Gemini 1.5 Pro have done similarly impressive things.
Is it really that impressive that it's done this once? I imagine with enough tries, GPT-4 Turbo and Gemini 1.5 Pro have done similarly impressive things.
The AI is proposing novel quantum algorithms using terminology most of us here don’t understand, and it’s apparently not “that impressive”!
We truly live in interesting times
More likely, though, you're just reading commentary by someone else who has different goalposts in mind. Unlike football, there is no standard for goalposts in AI.
As someone who also went to UWaterloo for quantum computing (MMath, not PhD, and I don't work in the field), let's look at the tweet in detail:
- in the first image, Claude's output is almost all useless LLM mush! Points #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, and #7 are uselessly vague and at best tangentially related to the problem. Only #2 has anything of interest, and even then it's just "come up with a quantum version of a classical algorithm," which is hardly insightful. Claude's output here just straight-up sucks!
- in the second image, "Initialization" is useless, "Quantum State Measurement" is useless, "Momentum Refreshment" is useless (and might be wrong in this context), "Iterations" is useless and misleading, and "Sample Collection" is useless.
- There is some real meat in the "Quantum Leapfrog Integration" section, but the entire last bullet point (starting with "The quantum leapfrog integrator consists of") is a completely useless statement which applies to every quantum algorithm.
There is almost nothing actionable for a quantum computing researcher here, except maybe as a brainstorming aid. And of course the giant pile of LLM mush is evidence that Claude doesn’t know what a “quantum computer” is or what an “algorithm” is, it’s just a fancy chatbot. I am not at all impressed by any of this.