• SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Quantum science is not fraudulent, incredible leaps are being made with the immense influx of funding.

    Quantum industry is a different beast entirely, with scientific rigour being corrupted by stock price management.

    It’s an objective fact that quantum computers indeed exist now, but only at a very basic prototype level. Don’t trust anything a journalist says about them, but they are real, and they are based on technology we had no idea if would ever be possible.

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      3 hours ago

      Well, I love being wrong! Are you able to show a documented quantum experiment that was carried out on a quantum computer (and not an emulator using a traditional architecture)?

      How about a use case that isn’t simply for breaking encryption, benchmarking, or something deeply theoretical that they have no way to know how to actually program for or use in the real world?

      I’m not requesting these proofs to be snarky, but simply because I’ve never seen anything else beyond what I listed.

      When I see all the large corporations mentioning the processing power of these things, they’re simply mentioning how many times they can get an emulated tied bit to flip, and then claiming grandiose things for investors. That’s pretty much it. To me, that’s fraudulent (or borderline) corporate BS.