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I know next to nothing about quantum computing, but something about this seems extremely fishy. Had they developed a working quantum processor, would they not h
by cirgue 9y ago
I know next to nothing about quantum computing, but something about this seems extremely fishy. Had they developed a working quantum processor, would they not have publicized its capabilities far and wide before releasing an enterprise API? Failing at that, would there not be a benchmarks page that demonstrates the capabilities of this system? Could someone better acquainted with this technology weigh in?
- moomin 9y agoIndeed, someone spends what AFAICT is a very small amount of his time debunking every last claim that any given quantum computer does anything straightforward simulated annealing can't do.
- ZanyProgrammer 9y agoScott Aaronson?
- moomin 9y agoSounds right.
- cohomologo 9y agoNot any given quantum computer -- Scott Aaronson debunks the D-Wave "quantum" annealers that aren't actually shown to be harnessing the quantum power. IBM's machine by contrast is a genuine quantum computer -- the kind Scott Aaronson would probably have no problem with. But the number of qubits is too tiny to do anything interesting.
- hannob 9y agoIt's mostly marketing at this point. Even if their quantum computers work, at the scale they operate today everything they do will also be doable by simulating a quantum computer on an average PC with some slowdown. It's just "now we can do it on a real quantum computer". They would have to rapidly increase the bit number to produce anything that's useful. That may very well happen in the future, but nobody knows for sure.