Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

(spectrum.ieee.org)

83 points | by rbanffy a day ago ago

14 comments

  • teleforce a day ago ago

    The original paper by Çamsarı and his team, also linked from the OP article [1].

    [1] Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1,000,000 p-bits:

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25313

  • petra a day ago ago

    There's also digital probabilistic computing, with a processor working on AWS, and for the right workload ,claimed to be offering a very significant speed boost:

    https://www.eetimes.com/probabilistic-computing-is-already-h...

    Towards the end of the article.

  • RiverCrochet a day ago ago

    > In contrast, p-bits flip between 0 or 1 with a tunable probability.

    Isn't this basically an ADC (except the tunable probability isn't an input voltage)? Is this kinda-sorta a new form of analog computing?

  • anonymousiam a day ago ago

    It's not mentioned in the article, but this hardware architecture may be better suited for brute-forcing password/crypto/key cracking than traditional computing architectures.

    • rbanffy a day ago ago

      Is there a paper on that? I’m not I see how.

  • spiritplumber a day ago ago

    Hari Seldon approves

    • rbanffy a day ago ago

      Computational Sociodynamics will be a very promising tool.

  • m-hodges a day ago ago

    I absolutely love the photo of the computer at the top of the article. Not at all what I thought I was going to see from this headline.

  • faangguyindia a day ago ago

    curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.

  • edu_do_cerrado a day ago ago

    we all know the answer is 42

  • v3ss0n a day ago ago

    Best LLM ever.

  • dr_dshiv a day ago ago

    When can I get an API key!

  • bethekind 17 hours ago ago

    I'm ignorant. What problems is this good at solving?