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Why do people continue to lie, or at least irresponsibly overstate, quantum computing results? Is it just a grift for funding? Or are they true believers who t
by JackFr 3y ago
Why do people continue to lie, or at least irresponsibly overstate, quantum computing results? Is it just a grift for funding? Or are they true believers who think with enough resources, reality will eventually catch up with their hype?
- irjustin 3y ago> Is it just a grift for funding? I'll put my money behind this. In the end it's all related to being able to successfully fund your lab.
- t2hk43pk4j324 3y agoIt's a grift for funding. We still can't factor all 5-bit numbers (the largest was 15-ish, but even that wasn't general IIRC) on QCs. Scammy startups are out there claiming all sorts of non-sense; ask them how many bits (arbitrary) they can run Shor's algorithm on and all their hyperbolic claims fall flat. Shor's alg. is still the gold-standard when it comes to QC's definitive advantages on Classical machines (all the ML ones have been disproved IIRC). All of the words in the above sentence are important, because they'll weasel out and cheat if you don't include them (even Google/IBM do this).
- oldgradstudent 3y agoThere's a quantum computing "industry". Professors, postdocs, PhD students, courses, conferences, journals, research institutes, government funding agencies, and even startups. Do you really want all of them to start looking for real jobs just because there are no quantum computers?