• Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    8 hours ago

    Check it, yo. In the 90s all the articles and rumors around quantum computing were exactly the same. Exactly.

    Whenever I hear about some new quantum computing breakthrough, I spend about five seconds wondering if it’s real and then I feel very nostalgic because no, it never is.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 hours ago

      If you had asked someone in the 90s if they could imagine half the shit that we have technologically they wouldn’t believe it. Just because something seems surreal, doesn’t mean it’s fake.

      Whether this new chip can do the things it claims we’ll see soon enough.

  • cabbage@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    60
    ·
    11 hours ago

    This is a piece of alleged technology that is based on basic physics that has not been established.

    That does sound like a problem.

  • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    46
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    11 hours 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.

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 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.

      • pycorax@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 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.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 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.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      edit-2
      10 hours ago

      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?”

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Of course. Not a single quantum computer has done anything but test programs and quantum-specific benchmarks. Until a quantum computer finally does something a normal computer regularly does, but faster, we should simply ignore this area.