i thought LLMs are the bootstrap to singularity riches.
RoyTyrell 2 days ago [-]
yawn Maybe d-wave should put up or shut up. QC companies and bro-advocates have been saying this for years and there's been very little use outside of pure r&d labs.
I don't believe that QC is going to have the ease of use, time to deployment, and relative low-cost that GPUs are going to have any time soon - if ever.
cwillu 2 days ago [-]
QC could have all of those things and it would still not be a threat. Using a quantum computer for general computation is like using a front-end loader to go grocery shopping: it's a spectacular improvement for the task it's designed for, and utterly useless for the vast majority of other tasks.
Melatonic 2 days ago [-]
....do quantum computers and GPUs have a lot of overlap in the types of tasks they compute ? I was under the impression they solve quite different problems
duskwuff 2 days ago [-]
Do present-day quantum computers compute any nontrivial tasks (i.e. beyond factoring the number 15)?
cwillu 2 days ago [-]
Correct, there's almost no overlap.
hank808 2 days ago [-]
No.
mgh2 2 days ago [-]
Sounds like another hype cycle coming...
duskwuff 1 days ago [-]
Quantum computing has been stuck in a sort of attempted hype cycle for the last five or ten years now, I think.
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Here is Microsoft one,
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qdk-main-ove...
I don't believe that QC is going to have the ease of use, time to deployment, and relative low-cost that GPUs are going to have any time soon - if ever.