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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

I don't see why put quantum computer in that group.

It's a scientific research topic. It is know what it does and what it doesn't do. And they are not selling you it's going to be the future.

It's just a developing technology which have potential to make some algorithms more efficient than binary computation.

They don't sell you quantum computation, they don't tell you to invest in it. It's just something being researched by computer scientists.

Let's not be that much anti-any-kind-of-progress, shall we?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Quantum computers are more secure but could also be used to break that security. That's why the major customers of quantum computers are banks and governments. It is not really for wide mass consumption. Although I heard quantum chips are better and more environmentally friendly but i am not a tech guy so i could be wrong on that or the quantum chip itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Artificial Intelligence is also a research topic. But when snake oil merchants figured out that they could use the term to take lots of money from the hands of unsuspecting people, it became a grift. As such I believe the inclusion of quantum computing in the group is on point

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Quantum computers are a thing, and they’re very useful for certain things…

    But business idiots in the tech world do be slapping the word “quantum” on stuff. It’s not a huge thing at the moment, but it’s probably gonna be the next insufferable hype cycle after they get tired of branding random shit as “AI enabled” because they stapled a chat bot on to it.

    Like, give it a few years, someone will be trying to tell you that a quantum computer will somehow make a vacuum robot able to do your laundry because “something something better path finding”

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I am not against any of the tech i listed, i think they all are neat and quite interesting to study and use.

    you have probably not been around the forums to realise why i put it there, QC discussion these days are leaning towards the it's a grift/ it will never be viable territory. This is mostly in large part due to M$ and their claims. there is also some subtle fear mongering going on with the recent push towards quantam resistant encryption standards.

    So i am not calling QC a grift, I am calling out that whenever it becomes viable for the companies that are researching it to rent their computers to consumers, people will start calling it the next grift.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    I mean it's definitely something that companies are trying to sell. Even if it's just marketing BS right now, they're using this to sell their LLM products.

    https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/majorana-2-microsoft-discovery-agentic-ai/

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    They are not selling that to end users or business.

    That's a line of product for research purposes.

    They sell that to people researching quantum computer.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How about Mullvad advertising quantum protection or whatever?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    What?

    Post quantum encryption algorithms are the ones that any serious company should use right now.

    Because one of the algorithms that it's stated to be far more efficient on a quantum computer than a binary one are number factorization, which is the bases of many public private enceyption algorithms like RSA.

    Right now it's not possible, but listen now decrypt later means that anything encrypted now might be decrypted in not so many years by a quantum computer.

    They are not selling you a quantum computer, they are "selling" the algorithm you should be using if you don't want your communications to be easily decrypted when a quantum computer with a higher number of stable qbits hits production.

    Those algorithms are, anyway, public and well know, like parabolic curve algorithm or lattices. You could implement them yourself, any company can do so.

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