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Kinexity t1_je31fe6 wrote
Cancer survival rates have been steadily going up for the last several decades. Although advances are slow they are there nonetheless.
Nanaki_TV t1_je3blgd wrote
Missed chance to say they’re there
ImmotalWombat t1_je5tanh wrote
Did you think that that's funny; to make a joke about how they're there, their efforts are succeeding!
Sigma_Atheist t1_je2nbxu wrote
They'll be lucky if they can even factor the number 25 with this thing.
garden_frog t1_je4hgym wrote
Please cure aging 🙏
Delduath t1_je4q1yg wrote
Very likely to happen within our lifetime anyway. Whether we'll have access to it is another story.
Sigma_Atheist t1_je2n0zv wrote
Amazing. In the very first sentences, you can tell that the author knows nothing about quantum computing:
"Recently, IBM and the Cleveland Clinic unveiled a quantum computer that could advance medical innovation like never before. The IBM Quantum System One was created to crunch large amounts of data at high speeds."
Senseless hype.
Edit: They didn't even report on the qubit count!
Paraphrand t1_je2ojzs wrote
I can’t help but read copy like that and assume it was written by ChatGPT now.
Sigma_Atheist t1_je2ovd7 wrote
I doubt ChatGPT would think quantum computers can be used to "crunch large amounts of data at high speeds," unlike your average person who hears "quantum computer" and immediately thinks the thing has an unfathomable clock speed without bothering to fact check. Shame on this journalist.
Sigma_Atheist t1_je2zukl wrote
Then it's useless! 20 qubits are fully simulable on normal computers.
mescalelf t1_je30cw9 wrote
Yep, it’s a joke; no way it’s gonna do anything useful except act as a training platform that could be just as easily simulated with digital simulation, as you point out.
They’d be better off applying machine learning (in the vein of AlphaFold 2, for instance) on a digital computer for serious R&D.
Well, unless they’ve made one hell of a breakthrough regarding coherence time. Even then, 20 qubits isn’t exactly a lot to work with.
Nanaki_TV t1_je3bthm wrote
Isn’t there something about alignment or perfect qbits? Where you need more Nonperfect qbits vs perfect to hold data? It’s late. I should sleep.
mescalelf t1_je3htdl wrote
Not quite the right nomenclature (wording), but wording is often less important than content—and on the content of your question, you’re right.
Unlike digital computers, quantum computers don’t reliably output the right answer—even when they work as well as (we think) they possibly could. Instead, they give a distribution (over multiple runs) of correct and incorrect outputs. , These average out to the right answer if the computation is repeated some number of times.
However, quantum computers produce incorrect outputs much more frequently if a quantum computation is interrupted by some interaction—e.g. a thermal photon. It doesn’t take very much interaction to cause “decoherence”, so many types of quantum computer (including the most popular) have to be cooled to extremely low temperatures. There’s also active research on computational ways of improving fault-tolerance/error-tolerance…unfortunately, even with such methods, thousands of qubits are required to do useful computations. Even with aggressive cooling, none of our quantum computers have been able to hit the necessary qubit counts yet.
Quantum computers aren’t really very impressive or useful with low numbers of qubits. The computational power of digital computers scales roughly linearly with respect to the number of computational transistors. The representational complexity of a quantum computer doubles each time a qubit is added; this doesn’t translate nicely to equivalent computational power, but quantum computers do still have much steeper (exponential) scaling for some types of computational problem. Unfortunately, systems of many entangled qubits are much less stable than smaller entangled systems…so we can’t make good use of quantum computers until we can improve coherence time and/or fault tolerance a good deal.
uishax t1_je43wfy wrote
Quantum computers, like nuclear fusion, look like they could use a heavy dose of AI-assisted research from GPT-7/8.
mescalelf t1_je6kc65 wrote
Yep, 100%. They’re both technically soluble, but are, apparently, very nuanced problems. AI (even purpose-built narrow AI) is great with those.
D_Ethan_Bones t1_je33505 wrote
> Amazing. In the very first sentences, you can tell that the author knows nothing about quantum computing:
Swivelchair journalism, their job is not to distribute facts but to propagate feelings.
TopicRepulsive7936 t1_je31ei2 wrote
Why do you focus on the reporting and not the actual thing.
Sigma_Atheist t1_je33157 wrote
Because the reporting is misrepresenting quantum computers by making them out to be some supercomputer, when in actuality it is nothing of the sort and there's already enough misinformation disguised as science journalism around quantum computing as it is. It makes me mad.
Further, what actual thing? Nothing in the article tells you the qubit count or any other relevant stat. Another user pointed out that it probably has 20 qubits though, which is completely useless since 20 qubits can be fully simulated on normal computers.
TopicRepulsive7936 t1_je34nya wrote
Oh the horrors you have witnessed.
Sigma_Atheist t1_je358so wrote
Indeed.
Mission-Length7704 t1_je2k8qk wrote
Please find a way to reopen growth plates so I can grow taller
HydrousIt t1_je2km5f wrote
This vs cure cancer 🤔
Iffykindofguy t1_je2l1zj wrote
Short men are a cancer
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/s jk short kings dont come for me
Fol1234 t1_je2l1wj wrote
Why not both
Sigma_Atheist t1_je2nsbo wrote
Because it can't do either.
Ribak145 t1_je3y38i wrote
I dont trust anything IBM says nowadays and until they deliver prove for real quantum computing, this is meaningless
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ParkingEmu1142 t1_je519nu wrote
Palantir partnered with both of them
IlIIlIlIlIIlIIlIllll t1_je5hp79 wrote
Can it research how to make a 2-hour emergency room visit not cost $8,000?
Mysterious_Ayytee t1_je6b1tj wrote
In Germany we solved this problem and invented F̶U̶N̶N̶Y̶B̶O̶T̶™̶ the "Gebührenordnung für Ärzte" Look here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geb%C3%BChrenordnung_f%C3%BCr_%C3%84rzte?wprov=sfla1 (You need to translate it)
It's limiting the medical fees since 1896. But hey, muh freedom derp communism...
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Sigma_Atheist t1_je2ng9f wrote
No. But it looks pretty in a glass casing.
S3ndD1ckP1cs t1_je2iykk wrote
Please cure cancer 🙏