Not really. He dodges all the questions, and just babbles with things like "there's a lot of nuance in quantum computing".
Google Lost The AI Lead. Can Quantum Put It Back on Top?I do not agree that Google lost the AI lead, or that quantum will help it in the AI race. Google has been a leader in AI for about 15 years. It is still at or near the top with protein folding, chess and go, and Gemini 2.5. And of course its big money-maker, which is using AI to target ads for everyone.
The supposed Google AI lead is based on a popular 2017 paper, but a new Nature journal survey rates a Microsoft AI paper as the most cited in the 21st century.
Scott Aaronson makes an appearance expressing skepticism about Microsoft's quantum computer.
In another video, physicist Angela Collier celebrates Bezos Blue Origin sending six women into space. Just kidding. She does a 40-minute rant against it.
And Peter Woit and Scott Aaronson are still arguing over the proper response to Trump being Hitler reincarnated. The basic facts are that Columbia and Harvard are extremely rich, they are not complying with federal law, they are receiving billions of dollars contingent on obeying federal law, they are refusing to comply, and they are squealing about Trump threatening to withhold those funds. Their faculties are dominated by leftist Trump-haters who do not want to compromise.
Woit and Aaronson think this could have been settled in quiet negotiations. Or maybe they think colleges should not have to obey the law, I am not sure. But it is extremely clear that Columbia and Harvard will not comply unless funds are withheld. Harvard already lost a racial discrimination case in the US Supreme Court, and it continues to discriminate as before.
The arrogance of these colleges was on full display when their presidents testified before Congress in Dec. 2023. The public backlash was so fierce that those presidents ended up resigning. You would think that these colleges would be eager to obey the law, but they stubbornly refuse.
Woit and Aaronson pointedly disagree on some Jewish issues, but that seems minor compared to their hysterical Trump hatred, and their overdramatizing of these colleges being held accountable. I doubt that they realize how much they seem like spoiled children.
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ReplyDeleteThe really creepy thing about Peter Woit, is that he has no ability to self reflect whatsoever. He is supposed to be a teacher at Columbia, and yet he makes it crystal clear on his own blog site that he has no toleration for anyone that disagrees with him politically, or at least isn't a democrat.
How can a teacher/instructor be taken as remotely competent when they can't control/moderate their own mouth publicly? I have nothing against any kind of political preference, but when you silence or rabidly attack anyone who doesn't agree with your political, views you shouldn't be anywhere near teaching. People who share Woit's outlook and selective blindness are a large part of why Columbia and Harvard is in trouble.
If you go to Woit's site 'Not even wrong', and read the comments about Columbia, you can see how unhinged Woit is. Aaronson tries several times to point out to Woit how he is going over the top, and that accusing anyone of disagreeing with him as being a 'liar' and denying there is any problem with supporting political censorship, or a known terrorist group, or having activists occupying buildings and refusing admittance to anyone who supports Israel is not helping their case about 'fascism' from the right, when their own side is apparently more than ready to stand in for brownshirts.
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