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Marketing at IBM should read up before writing illuminating sentences like "...quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns can
by moab 10y ago
Marketing at IBM should read up before writing illuminating sentences like "...quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn’t exist and the possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to ever be processed by classical computers."
Necessary reading (read by my high-school age cousins, so your marketers should be able to grok it) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Computers.pdf http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Com...
- RobertoG 10y agoI think this is one of those cases where the inverse Hanlon's Razor applies: "Avoid attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice"
- Chyzwar 10y ago"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
- yalooze 10y agoHas our knowledge of quantum computers changed much in the last 9 years since that Scientific American article was written? ie. Is there anything more recent worth reading? Or it's all still completely valid?
- blueyes 10y agoIBM's PR in AI and now this is nauseating. They are discrediting the tech industry by repeatedly promising more than they can deliver. I wonder if their PR team even speaks with their engineers, who must be cringing.