ychuck46
ychuck46 t1_j9ol9dt wrote
Reply to comment by geek_fit in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Sounds like a page out of Microsoft's playbook.
ychuck46 t1_j9ol5u6 wrote
Reply to comment by Jabba6905 in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
Yeah, the three people that use Bing are a huge threat to Google's 96% share of the worldwide search market.
ychuck46 t1_j9oky8z wrote
Reply to Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
While quantum computers can tackle jobs that would take traditional computing much longer to solve, the main issue for me is that they can be prone to errors, and potentially lots of errors. Would you want your doctor to work with a quantum computing device while performing surgery on you? "We were expected to take out a kidney but instead the computer had us remove your penis. Sorry about that". How about putting a man or woman on the moon? "Gee, we almost got it right, but unfortunately since we were using a quantum computer the astronauts are floating off into the endless reaches of space since we didn't stick that landing trajectory".
ychuck46 t1_j9pnjx6 wrote
Reply to comment by lincolnrules in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W
I don’t know. Analog to digital involved hard and fast rules, 1s and 0s being the biggest examples. Quantum computing is much more opaque meaning it will be more error prone. Hopefully you are right and they succeed, eventually.