| pokoko said: In terms of profitability, if they solve quantum AI then it will be worth hundreds of trillions at the least and justify all the AI expenses by itself. I know people don't want to hear that but too bad. Quantum is the real prize at the end of the rainbow for mega-corporations and governments ... and possibly the biggest disruption to modern society that we will ever experience. Also, thank you Trump for making my quantum stock jump by almost 50%. |
Before Quantum computers are figured out, I think we'll have pretty intricate analog and digital photonic processors, which are more immediately suited for data processing and deep learning than quantum computing
That'd get us about three orders of magnitude more energy efficiency per compute unit.
I have a friend who is helping extend Lean (the proof verification language used in the Erdos problem solver that has been recently in the news) to have enough mathematical foundations to formalize quantum mechanics,with automated photonics research as the ultimate end-goal (and where his funding comes from.)
Photonics has already transformed networking, so it makes sense that it will extend to specialized processing.
Of course Quantum Computing will help with the specific class of intractable problems that classical computers can't solve, and that will indeed be revolutionary.
My main concern is society and how it will handle this. "Corporations" and "states" might become outmoded social institutions.
