I took a course on quantum computing in university. It’s a really neat technology and it can absolutely do things inconceivable by classical computing, but classical computers still do most stuff way better. In a rational world these chips would be developed and then used for their niche purposes, but I’m definitely concerned that this will be another technology indiscriminately shoved in our faces to try to capitalize on a bubble.
Until you see companies selling liquid nitrogen generators, you’re not going to have to worry about anyone pushing quantum chips on the average consumer.
It could be sci-fi levels of functional, and we still wouldn’t know what to do with it. All we know is that it can do stuff that’d take forever on mere Turing machines. Mostly to fuck up existing encryption. Other magic tricks are as yet undiscovered.
It won’t form a hype bubble, because there’s not even some weird niche use that a cult of MBAs can insist they need, five minutes after hearing about it. Quantum programming is all hideous math proofs.
And should some proof let us say P=NP, our hype will not be a bubble.
I’ll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem
I bet they’re going to use it for AI.
The question stands.
I took a course on quantum computing in university. It’s a really neat technology and it can absolutely do things inconceivable by classical computing, but classical computers still do most stuff way better. In a rational world these chips would be developed and then used for their niche purposes, but I’m definitely concerned that this will be another technology indiscriminately shoved in our faces to try to capitalize on a bubble.
Until you see companies selling liquid nitrogen generators, you’re not going to have to worry about anyone pushing quantum chips on the average consumer.
Although presumably there are companies that do sell liquid nitrogen generators
the problem they will eventually solve is how to spy you better and feed you more AI crap
It could be sci-fi levels of functional, and we still wouldn’t know what to do with it. All we know is that it can do stuff that’d take forever on mere Turing machines. Mostly to fuck up existing encryption. Other magic tricks are as yet undiscovered.
It won’t form a hype bubble, because there’s not even some weird niche use that a cult of MBAs can insist they need, five minutes after hearing about it. Quantum programming is all hideous math proofs.
And should some proof let us say P=NP, our hype will not be a bubble.