<div dir="auto">Will quantum computers be useful for anything?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- They're too low memory to have any utility in AI training.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- By the time they're large enough to crack RSA or ECC keys, we will have moved to Post-Quantum-Secure cryptography.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only claimed benefit I have seen that seems to hold any water is in simulating very small scale particle interactions. But you need at least as many q-bits as there are particles being stimulated.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So this seems to limit utility to simulating nanoscale molecular interactions, but AlphaFold is already quite adept at this, and is improving all the time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So what actual problems will quantum computers solve?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 2:02 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With Majorana, Microsoft Says Quantum Is Years, Not Decades, Away<br>
February 20, 2025 Jeffrey Burt<br>
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<<a href="https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/20/with-majorana-microsoft-says-quantum-is-years-not-decades-away/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/20/with-majorana-microsoft-says-quantum-is-years-not-decades-away/</a>><br>
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As if you don’t have enough to do with the AI revolution, Microsoft<br>
says that 2025 is also the year that organizations need to begin<br>
getting ready for quantum computing.<br>
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Mitra Azizirad, president and chief operating officer of strategic<br>
missions and technologies for the IT and AI giant, wrote that the<br>
world was at the “advent of the reliable quantum computing era,”<br>
adding that “as our industry looks toward the next twelve months, the<br>
pace of quantum research and development is only going to accelerate,<br>
making this a critical and catalyzing time for business leaders to<br>
act.”<br>
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Microsoft executives this week backed up their beliefs, introducing a<br>
new chip based on a quasiparticle – Majorana – and a new state of<br>
material – topological superconductivity – that both had been<br>
theoretical until now, they said.<br>
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Wow! Quantum computers and AI advances!<br>
What's the world coming to?<br>
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BillK<br>
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