• Ace T'Ken@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, most quantum science at the moment is largely fraudulent. It’s not just Microsoft. It’s being developed because it’s being taught in business schools as the next big thing, not because anybody has any way to use it.

    Any of the “quantum computers” you see in the news are nothing more than press releases about corporate emulators functioning how they think it might work if it did work, but it’s far too slow to be used for anything.

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      10 hours ago

      Quantum science is not fraudulent, incredible leaps are being made with the immense influx of funding.

      Quantum industry is a different beast entirely, with scientific rigour being corrupted by stock price management.

      It’s an objective fact that quantum computers indeed exist now, but only at a very basic prototype level. Don’t trust anything a journalist says about them, but they are real, and they are based on technology we had no idea if would ever be possible.

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        3 hours ago

        Well, I love being wrong! Are you able to show a documented quantum experiment that was carried out on a quantum computer (and not an emulator using a traditional architecture)?

        How about a use case that isn’t simply for weakening encryption (or something deeply theoretical that they have no way to know how to actually program for)?

        I’m not requesting these to be snarky, but simply because I’ve never seen anything else.

        When I see all the large corporations mentioning the processing power of these things, they’re simply mentioning how many times they can get an emulated tied bit to flip, and then claiming grandiose things for investors. That’s pretty much it.

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      I just saw on Linked In that in 12 months “quantum AI” is going to be where it’s at. Uh… really? Do I hear “crypto-quantum AI?”

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      20 hours ago

      It’s…not shocking exactly, but a little surprising and a lot disappointing that so much of finance is now targeted at “let’s make a thing that we read about in sci fi novels we read as kids.”

      Focusing on STEM and not the humanities means we have a bunch of engineers who think “book thing cool” and have zero understanding of how allegory works.

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        17 hours ago

        Most competent engineers don’t think that. They know and understand the limitations of what they’re working on. They just do it because the finance bros pay.

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        18 hours ago

        Elno has just reinforced that if you lie enough to become a billionaire, that the market will reward you for YEARS. Possibly forever of you don’t let them find out your a power hungry amazing who want to ruin the whole country.