Is it real, or is it a giant financial marketing bubble waiting for its moment to consume the world economy? Let’s watch what happens with the AI bubble to find out.
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 days ago
I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 days ago
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think quantum computing is a bubble at all, at least not yet. It’s still firmly in the stage of being explored and understood in a healthy way. I could see it having the possibility of being a bubble, but it would take significant advances in making it more available.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 days ago
That’s exactly where LLMs/"AI” were about 10 years ago. My point is that after the AI bubble pops, the same idiot techbros have probably already identified new things to latch onto and pump up into a bubble, they’re probably already seeding the ground with it. I can almost guarantee quantum computing will be one of their next “disruptors” that they disrupt ignorant investor’s bank accounts with.
AI is just the currently active grift of these con artists. The grift goes on, and on, and on, it never stops. Quantum computing will have its day. It’s not there yet, but someday it will be.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
If you can make a bubble out of crypto and sub-prime mortgages, quantum computing is a doddle, though I’d bet it comes after compute as a service using all those datacentres (some of which will even get built).
Problem is the AI burst is very likely to take out the US economy (and do bad things to the rest of the world), the home of these scams. But I’m sure some shareholder value was ‘created’.
Gust@piefed.social 2 days ago
Quantum computing is trying to be ai, in the sense that it does have niche scientific uses it excels at but tech bro types want it to be the next general computer so they can make their empire on it. The only use case I’ve seen it excel at so far is generating precisely tailored probability distributions, which end up mostly being useful for simulating different models for quantum field theory. Even then I’ve only seen that in looped fiber implementations, which imo are a stretch on the definition of quantum computer.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
I mean, AI is what took the focus away from QC, especially after AlphaFold. Quantum Computing is potentially a society changing technology, now regarding practice we are really far away. The main expectations are in the field of medicine. I work in that field and I reckon that if the expectations placed on quantum computers were to come true, we’d be able to study the human body much quicker than now and to develop drugs much quicker than now. However, I do work nearby a Quantum computing centre and I have met quite a few persons who work in the field, both as researchers and entrepreneurs. Currently no computer can be used to make any real calculations and it is actually unclear if the molecular simulations are actually possible with a quantum computer. As far as I understand it, it may not be possible to encode the whole system in a quantum computer before it loses coherence. This may be an intrinsic limitation as for real problems you’d need to encode tens of thousands of electrons.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If it’s good at probability distributions it probably can be incorporated into finance via Black Scholes or something similar.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every time I see a picture of a quantum computer, it just looks like a bunch of Galileo thermometers bundled together. So maybe you’re on to something lol
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Come off it. Next you’ll be saying that lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ca/c/vxjunkies are just making it up.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
This syntax should work in most Lemmy clients natively: !vxjunkies@lemmy.ca
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s giving a 404. Kobold might be on to something.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think you are thinking of recycling.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.
Here’s the YouTube link, or search for “But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover’s Algorithm)” on your preferred front-end: youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU