Anyone watch 60 minutes this Sunday? 60 minutes opened with a discussion on Quantum Computing and Dario Gil from IBM made it sound like we will really see some real meaningful usage of Quantum Computing soon. 60 minutes made it sound like that whoever comes out on top in Quantum Computing will rule the computing industry? How realistic is this within the next decade? I am a big fan of scientific research and physics but can this really become mainstream in a decade or are we looking way out there for another 20-30 years?
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IBM, Google, Amazon Microsoft are the world leaders in research in quantum computing: this is the next hot technology.
Investment needs to be done for tomorrow’s results. Majority of world nations are behind these investments in order not to get behind
I hear everyone on thru this thread about this being all hype or research money would be better spent elsewhere. Everyone is making good points. But we have to evolve and we need to take risks. I am hoping someday that we can make that big discovery someday that will make mankind better. I am concerned that we need to look out there for what appears today to be a pipe dream for our own survival. At the rate we are going, mankind’s survival on earth is not looking great due to wars and what we have done to our planet.
Sounds like well-timed PR post-earnings report. Would you like a bridge to go with that vaporware, because it’s just around the corner and you’re gonna want to get in on this deal early and score a seat on our submarine to go see the Titanic…
Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers that may revolutionize problem solving --
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/quantum-computing-google-ibm-advances-60-minutes-transcript/
@cpe+1tKdzA69 Yes. These are science experiments, what we used to call "pure research" as opposed to "applied research" and certainly differentiated from "development", the other half of R&D. Yet these id--tic press releases would have you believe that we are not only in the development stage but getting close to the product release phase. Utter hogwash. Microsoft, Google, Intel all engaging in the same tomfoolery. We're as close to a real quantum computer as we are to a Mr Fusion.
Let's forget about "useful general purpose" for a minute, because to be fair you have to walk before you can run. Focusing on the walking part, it would be nice to see a quantum computing design that could actually be built outside of a specially-equipped laboratory, and that could actually solve even one type of problem in a consistent, accurate and reliable manner.
Right now, quantum computers don't satisfy any of those conditions. They require custom, or at the very least, single-source components and materials. They require cooling to superconductive conditions. And as far as I know, there is no problem in any space for which a real life quantum computing solution actually exists.
In theory, quantum computers can quickly factor large integers. Great...how about showing me a quantum computer that actually does it? Give me a keyboard and a screen, and let me type in a large number for Watson Q (or whatever the he-l IBM calls it) to factor, and display an answer. Where is it? Skip the keyboard and screen, and just put up a PC in front of it with a web server so the public can see it work. If IBM has anything, they should be able to show it off in this manner. Can they do it in 1 year? 10 years? 20? I dunno, maybe they can.
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IBM's DOWNFALL. Becoming a hyping politician leading Research and neglecting innovations that matter. The System 360 Research innovations are over. IBM keeps buying companies for billions while Research is useless. Close Research at least save a few billions...
Quantum has been the biggest failure ever. Im starting to think it's disinformation on purpose, maybe to make other countries invest time and money into something that's not viable in anyway and never will be.
The question is, how much did IBM bribe the producers of the show to mention IBM and quantum computing . It is a desperate publicity stunt to have that mumbling idi0T spew nonsense.
There is zero chance we have a useful general purpose quantum computer in the next decade. Not from IBM not from anyone. 20-30 years out it's harder to say but even for that there are enormous obstacles that have to be overcome around noise and error correction.