It feels like 6 months ago, I couldn’t go a few hours without being exposed to some new wild claims from Microsoft or Google, or any of the other companies working on this. Lately nothing comes up in any of my feeds.
It feels like 6 months ago, I couldn’t go a few hours without being exposed to some new wild claims from Microsoft or Google, or any of the other companies working on this. Lately nothing comes up in any of my feeds.
First, Its a super specialized technology that requires a lab and paper writing graduate academics to even have real access for stack building.
Then, what are the problems that are even advantageous to solve with a quantum computer. Most daily life problems people face can be delt with by traditional computation. The stuff that really benefits from things like grovers algorithm are cutting edge simulations requiring math thats still being figured out.
For most people the concept and utility of a computer begins and ends with a device to watch YouTube, search internet, play games, send email, do work. Quantum computers are almost explicitly the domain of advanced stem engineers and applied mathematics, things that go over most peoples heads.
Anyone interested in mathematical modeling of hyperdimensional tensor matrixes or to study quantum error correcting codes for funsies likely have institutions backing, education, and connections.
You can buy quantum as pretty much public compute these days. But the price is, well, unaffordable (think 100k USD ++ for a short run) and the wait time for your job to get scheduled is up to 14 days.