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Quantium computers feel like they are in the mechanical computer era, they still need the equivalent of the electronic, thermionic and semiconductor revolutions
by somat 3y ago
Quantium computers feel like they are in the mechanical computer era, they still need the equivalent of the electronic, thermionic and semiconductor revolutions to be useful.
My gut tells me they may never end up being very useful. something about the intrinsic downsides to any analog computer. which if you are not familiar, is that analog computer components must be far more precise than their digital counterparts.
If you really wanted to get pedantic you could call our everyday semiconductor based computers "quantum" as they operate on a distinctly quantum phenomena. However the term appears to be reserved for devices that are able to exploit analog quantum outcomes.
- CamperBob2 3y agoMy gut tells me they may never end up being very useful. something about the intrinsic downsides to any analog computer. which if you are not familiar, is that analog computer components must be far more precise than their digital counterparts. Counterpoint: some of the most interesting classical algorithms, such as transformer-based neural nets, appear to work well with far less precision than expected. For that matter, the first perceptrons were analog... and of course, so is the one that everybody is trying to emulate. As a measure of signal-to-noise ratio, numerical precision in the classical domain may correspond to other attributes in other domains. It may not be a productive thing to focus on.