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submitted 1 year ago by kittin@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

I think we will get some “break throughs” in Quantum Computing that Google execs will assure us makes their company worth five trillion dollars.

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[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

You can't point at a qbit it just looks like a regular chip but in a fridge and everything it can even hypothetically do is boring behind the scenes nerd shit.

With the "self driving" car you can point at a car with sensors and shit strapped to it, with the "AI" you can point to the slop it generated.

With quantum, what do you point at? A little notification on your bank's account website that says "your account is now Quantum Secure?"

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't point at a qbit it just looks like a regular chip but in a fridge and everything it can even hypothetically do is boring behind the scenes nerd shit.

yes, I frequently find that tech journalism is held back by its rigid adherence to truth

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

It's not even about adherence to truth, it's that there's nothing there to even lie about

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I doubt that will stop them from doing it anyway. They’ll use an AI generated image of a chip that looks like “quantum”

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

A little notification on your bank's account website that says "your account is now Quantum Secure?"

that's still meaningless until somebody proves that Quantum computers actually can break pre-Quantum encryption in practical human time frames (like minutes/days/weeks) and non-state actors can purchase such hardware.

Would be funny if we ended up in a future where the FBI smugly said "We don't need your password, we'll just Quantum in!" and the Quantum computer averages 1.5 years on most iPhones.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The AI hype is meaningless too but that doesn't stop them from doing it.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's kinda my point, quantum is so boring that even the meaningless fluff and hype is boring

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Ok but dilution fridges are really cool

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone hasn't been paying attention to Star Trek, since blue quantum torpedoes are clearly much better than regular shitty red photon torpedoes.

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