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Re: Google Quantum AI

#91

The lack of knowledge and ignorance of quantum computing in this thread is incredible. Quantum computers do exist. They are extremely useful and do things that digital computers cannot do. Categorically cannot. The cynicism in this thread is crazy

Are all those extremely useful applications in the room with us right now?

Re: Google Quantum AI

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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…

From Feynman's 1982 talk on quantum computing: "[N]ature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy." 0. https://s2.smu.edu/~mitch/class/5395/papers/feynman-quantum-...

>and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical

That is an absurd claim, if taken by itself. Most of nature relevant to us behaves classically. If you want to do simulations of a building or a car or an earthquake or the climate, modeling it as a quantum system would be absurd.

Re: Google Quantum AI

#93

The lack of knowledge and ignorance of quantum computing in this thread is incredible. Quantum computers do exist. They are extremely useful and do things that digital computers cannot do. Categorically cannot. The cynicism in this thread is crazy

Why not list what some of those things are? Links are fine if you’re pressed for time.

I’m not being snarky; I haven’t read much about quantum computing and I am genuinely interested in practical applications.

As it is, your comment just reads as “you people are a bunch of idiots, you’re all wrong and crazy, and I’ll insult you repeatedly but not offer one single corrective argument”. It would be insane for anyone to change their mind based on your comment, you’ll only get people to double down.

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Quantum AI running self driving cars in the blockchain cloud, social VR controlled. Experience our agile experience powered with renewable big data. Gamifying the digital transformation of tomorrow!

Okay team, when can we supercharge this?

Let's add some more people and do it in half the time.

Re: Google Quantum AI

#96

The lack of knowledge and ignorance of quantum computing in this thread is incredible. Quantum computers do exist. They are extremely useful and do things that digital computers cannot do. Categorically cannot. The cynicism in this thread is crazy

>They are extremely useful and do things that digital computers cannot do.

But that is false. A classical computer can simulate a quantum computer. Performance is the difference, not inherent ability.

>The cynicism in this thread is crazy

The cynicism stems from people telling others that practical quantum computers will change the world for at least a decade. Even the URL invokes deep cynicism in me, as it randomly combines Quantum computing with the current hot thing. When will openAI switch to quantum computing for their LLMs? Next year?

Re: Google Quantum AI

#97

Hilarious. Even the connection between AI and Quantum computing is deeply opaque. When computers first began development during WW2, they were a response to immediate demands for particular functionality from many technical areas. Quantum computing seems to go the exact opposite route, first of building up an (admittedly very interesting) technology and then later figuring out if there actually is anything useful to…

idk enough physics to say quantum computing is it or not intuitively it seems like understanding matter at a sub atomic level and having a machine that can interact with it seems like a super powerful thing to have. but I think quantum computing is in the same place ML was in the 80s; influential people (mainly Marvin Minsky) said the perceptron and neural nets were a dead end same thing could be happening to quantum computing because of the high expectations

Re: Google Quantum AI

#99
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Quantum AI running self driving cars in the blockchain cloud, social VR controlled. Experience our agile experience powered with renewable big data. Gamifying the digital transformation of tomorrow!

Sounds great, but we need Web3 in there! Or are we already onto Web4 or 5?

Re: Google Quantum AI

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Quantum AI running self driving cars in the blockchain cloud, social VR controlled. Experience our agile experience powered with renewable big data. Gamifying the digital transformation of tomorrow!

What's old is new again: The Return of the Turbo-encabulator!
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