As we continue to research quantum computing, quantum advantage – the supposed advantage that quantum computers theoretically have over regular computers – continues to dry up. Today we’re covering how more quantum computing use cases are disappearing, and an unexpected problem with quantum computing in general.I have been arguing that quantum computers are impossible, and also that they will have no commercial utility, even if they do work.
In this video, Hossenfelder argues that quantum computers have made a lot of technical progress, such as on error correction. But they are too expensive, too slow, too power-hungry, and no one can find any useful applications.
I noticed years ago that every time a 'quantum computer' would accomplish anything resembling a purpose, some team out of a (often Chinese) computer science department (this just means college kids fooling around) would find away to do the same exact thing in not that much longer a period of time on existing conventional computers (not supercomputers) using much much much less cost and energy.
ReplyDeleteQuantum computers are a fraud. They weren't ever really meant to do anything but provide employment to those who could sucker others into funding their construction. Real computers always had a highly defined purpose in mind for their construction, there was NEVER a period of 'Oh my god, we just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build this thing and now we don't really know what to do with it'.
Quantum encryption my ass, this has always just been bullshit FOMO on par with LHC levels of super-hype to scare government and private sponsors into spending ridiculous amounts of money on an imaginary technological arms race.