Google Quantum AI

Re:Google Quantum AI by randohostage on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:44AM (#40187875)

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

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Re:Google Quantum AI by constantcrying on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:50AM (#40187917)

Sure on some level it is extremely interesting and I don't think there is anything wrong with doing research on it. The real issue is pretending that it is something that in the near future will change the world, while having yet to figure what you actually could do with it.

IBM and Google have invested massively because someone there thought that it actually would be useful. But that hasn't happened yet and to be honest it doesn't look like that will change any time soon.

Inregards to Neural Networks, they were pretty much a complete dead end until computing power increased enough to make them viable. In that case an external technology had to come along to make it work.

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Re:Google Quantum AI by randohostage on Sunday April 28, 2024 @09:27AM (#40188429)

True the current use cases don't seem like they're worth the effort other than maybe applications to crypto but idk don't you think if you could interact with or model matter accurately from a personal computer it would be an absolute game changer? even more so than personal computers?

Plus what is the near future anyway? If big tech companies spend 2 billion a year on quantum computing for the next 25 years (which is how long it took to get from Geoffrey Hinton's book to fully commercial applications) that's 50 billion. OpenAI + Anthropic are valued at >100 billion. Even if they just broke even doesn't that seem worth it to control the next generation of computing?

And idk other than this, robotics (self driving, manufacturing, agriculture) and AGI what else is there to bet on for the coming decades?

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