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I think this year will IBM factor 55 using Shor's.
by dvh 6y ago
I think this year will IBM factor 55 using Shor's.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoGenuine question, is this sarcasm or reality? IBM's marketing of things like this is highly questionably, especially since blockchain and watson turned out to be such smokescreens from the marketplace/product/adoption standpoint. 1000 qubits in two years seems like a "quantum" leap based on what I read.
- klyrs 6y ago> 1000 qubits in two years seems like a "quantum" leap based on what I read. It is; that's enough to make a single error-corrected qubit. So the leap here is effectively one quantum
- suifbwish 6y agoThose SOBs were too busy planning the demise of CentOS to bother
- DebtDeflation 6y ago>Genuine question, is this sarcasm or reality? Pretty sure it's both. The hype level now being applied to all things "quantum" makes the hype that was applied to AI a few years ago seem like mere puffery.
- refulgentis 6y agoIMHO thats a bit blinkered, i have a deep interest in the field and the only mainstream publications on it clearly note there's no practical applications yet, and we're looking at a 5-10 year horizon of _maybe_ finding a niche application that actually improves with a handful of qubits Contrast that with AI, which caused formation of new departments and hiring binges throughout industry, including industry far outside tech
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoAnd all those hordes of "AI" "engineers" are less useful than a few hundred statisticians. If the buzzwords get innumerate business types to invest in building models, that is great. I just wish they would let people use things that actually work and that a human can understand, like linear regression. We have seen legitimate revolutions in natural language processing, computer vision, and games. Those things, however, are still a long way from being useful.
- yellowcake0 6y agoPersonally, I've become convinced that AI is just an elaborate jobs program scheme thought up by washed out PhD students to bilk gullable venture capitalists out of endless amounts of money.
- dvh 6y agoIn 2019 ibm tried 35 but there was too much noise, I think this year they will skip 35 and go directly to 55.
- 8note 6y agoIt doesn't seem likely that they'll factor 55 within 3 years
- dboreham 6y agoVery confused why they're not trying 42 first.
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- yellowcake0 6y agoCould be because 42 is not a semiprime.