Is Quantum Mechanics bullshit? Anon sure thinks so...
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Uh no.
https://www.dwavesys.com
They've been in business for many years, and have quantum computers. They're functional, you can use them via API right now. They're used to compute complex algorithms. Most of Big Tech algorithms are now written by quantum computers.
Google has quantum computers, IBM has them, and so does pretty much everyone else. They've been used in consumer facing products for at least 5-6 years now.
Quantum mechanics, and quantum computing are also two very different things. One is theoretical, the other is a practical application of said theory in actual technology.
There's definitely some quantum fuckery, as in they're opening the door to some kind of AI overlord, and yes there's weird religious shit... but the technology is very fucking real and already happening.
This just makes me less confident that everything is as they say it is.
I mean the power of AI is horrifying, don't get me wrong. All of this censorship and surveillance tech is happening because of advances in AI.
The tech these companies have right now is crazy. It's just gaining more and more power every year. But to argue quantum computers don't exist? That's just silly.
I looked into it a bit deeper after reading some of the articles linked above. AWS offers three different brands of quantum computers as instances you can rent. Two of them are 2-qubit systems max. The D-wave systems claim to be "5000+ qubit", but that's nonsense or marketing half-truths. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure.
These are offered to "scientists", I don't think there's very much real world application for them at this point. If they're using quantum computing in ML, it's only to do some of the linear regression math, and probably isn't all that interesting compared to the massive tensorcore farms that they're using for production ML.
D-wave achieves 5000+ qubits by networking a bunch of quantum computers together into an aggregated cloud platform. It is marketing speak, but its also true at the same time. You are able to leverage that total aggregate quantum processing power.
Quantum computing is good a specific data aggregation and predictive analysis tasks. It's best utilized when using a traditional computing system with it, so you get the best of both worlds. Basically hybrid processing, you let traditional processors do what quantum does poorly, and let quantum processors do what traditional processors can't. That's what D-Wave's market is focused on.
A good example, is Google used quantum computers to design algorithms for eye detection with Google Glass. Quantum computers have some really interesting use-cases when analyzing massive amounts of data. But ultimately the software to do much more with them literally doesn't exist yet. We're barely scratching the surface of what quantum computing is capable of, and again the more logical systems are going to be hybrid systems in the future that leverage both quantum processing and traditional processors in the same IO.