Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers (spectrum.ieee.org)

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.

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.

Hari Seldon approves

we all know the answer is 42

> 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?

When can I get an API key!

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

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.

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

Best LLM ever.

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