[ExI] Neven's Law

[John Clark]

In December 2018 researchers at Google solved a problem on their best
quantum computer, but a low end laptop computer could solve it too. In
January of this year an improved quantum computer solved a more complicated
version of the problem that took a high end desktop computer to equal. By
February they had to use Google's huge server network of conventional
computers to do what the Quantum Computer did.

Granted the problem chosen in the above was picked not because it was
useful but because it best highlighted what a Quantum Computer could do;
nevertheless a counterpart of Moore's law for conventional computers has
been proposed called Neven's Law named after the head of Google’s Quantum
Artificial Intelligence lab Hartmut Neven.

Neven's Law states that quantum computers are gaining computational power
relative to conventional computers at a double exponential rate
(2^(2)^2 ,  2^(2)^3
,   2^(2)^4 ,  2^(2)^5 ...)

If it turns out that Neven's law is anywhere close to being true then hold
on to your buts because we're in for a bumpy ride.

A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
<https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-nevens-law-describe-quantum-computings-rise-20190618/>

John K Clark
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