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Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by SOVIETIC-BOSS88 »

throwup238 wrote: post #6

I just looked at the Killed By Google gallery and it's got 295 rows of 3 dead projects per row (except for the first and last rows of 2). That's 883 kills. That is truly impressive! I look forward to welcoming "Quantum AI" to that graveyard.

The goog has no qualms in pulling the trigger, that's for sure. Jacquard by ATAP was a favourite of mine. I was going to say that's the price of innovation, but it has been a while since a new successful product release. Maybe the graveyard's fate is to go down in history like xerox parc (innovative but remembered as a footnote). Quite sad.

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by fooker »

becquerel wrote: post #19
fooker wrote: post #15

The fact this prize exists is admitting that no one has figured out a use for quantum computers. I have heard this mentioned several times in the last decade or so : "The only thing a quantum computer definitively does better than a classical computer is simulating a quantum computer." Whether this capability is useful is up in the air. Note that in practice, classical computers are going to be better at factoring nu…

Einstein did not have GPS in mind when he was developing his theories of relativity.

Survivorship bias. There is a lot more science that has not panned out.

I'm not saying quantum computing won't pan out, but if it has to there's some fundamental piece that is missing so far.

In contrast this effort is trying to imagine and monetize GPS before relativity is discovered.

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by shaohua »

Intralexical wrote: post #11
throwup238 wrote: post #6

I just looked at the Killed By Google gallery and it's got 295 rows of 3 dead projects per row (except for the first and last rows of 2). That's 883 kills. That is truly impressive! I look forward to welcoming "Quantum AI" to that graveyard.

Hard to kill that which was never alive.

this is gold!

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by huytersd »

buildbot wrote: post #18

With things like these, I like to think how much money went into the development of the random PR assets like the weird progression diagram. Apparently, that money is better spent of these than say, someone on the Python Language Committee, or your entire Python team.

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Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

fooker wrote: post #15

The fact this prize exists is admitting that no one has figured out a use for quantum computers. I have heard this mentioned several times in the last decade or so : "The only thing a quantum computer definitively does better than a classical computer is simulating a quantum computer." Whether this capability is useful is up in the air. Note that in practice, classical computers are going to be better at factoring nu…

Wouldn't the D-Wave kinda-but-not-really quantum computer that came out a decade ago be ideal for AI? Annealing sounds like exactly the kind of problem that needs to be solved for ML training?

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by bigfudge »

huytersd wrote: post #25
buildbot wrote: post #18

With things like these, I like to think how much money went into the development of the random PR assets like the weird progression diagram. Apparently, that money is better spent of these than say, someone on the Python Language Committee, or your entire Python team.

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I think your comment is rude, and naive in that it misses the point. The investment here is small relative the the marketing budget, which tells us something about their priorities.

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Post by brainless »

huytersd wrote: post #25
buildbot wrote: post #18

With things like these, I like to think how much money went into the development of the random PR assets like the weird progression diagram. Apparently, that money is better spent of these than say, someone on the Python Language Committee, or your entire Python team.

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