Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

2 days ago (spectrum.ieee.org)

> 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?

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.

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.