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Even if it solves some optimization problems well, it's not worth $15m. You can come up with the same solutions by spending far less money on way more CPU power
by coldcode 12y ago
Even if it solves some optimization problems well, it's not worth $15m. You can come up with the same solutions by spending far less money on way more CPU power. Plus it's a black box which has totally proprietary content you are not allowed to investigate based on some magical functionality. High on the PT Barnum Scale.
- mikeyouse 12y ago> High on the PT Barnum Scale. As a relative layman, doesn't the interest from Google / NASA / Lockheed give some merit to their claims? Or at least move it from the 'PT Barnum' scale to some other speculative-but-feasible technology scale?
- acqq 12y agoNo. Once some entity has a lot of money to spend, it invests it in various directions "just in case it might work." It's inevitable process, as soon as there are a lot of people making decisions (or even a small number of them, when it reflects their preferences). The money is invested in very weird stuff and then even get to be used, "because it's there" even if it's not really what it claims to be.