Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.
  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s a user-friendly wrapper for existing fake quantum. It’s not a “physics shortcut” and it doesn’t “tackle quantum problems.”

    Also no quantum problems have ever been “reserved for AI.” Some quantum solutions borrow optimization techniques from machine learning, but classical machine learning algorithms aren’t designed to leverage (or even consider) quantum effects.

    I’m putting this out there because there’s a tendency to lump together all the buzzwords, like AI and quantum, into one big category of powerful-technologies-I-don’t-understand that results in hyperbolic projections and magical thinking that thwarts progress.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The only quantum problem reserved for AI that I know of returned the answer ‘42’.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    making it easier to run complex simulations without relying on supercomputers or artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

    I stopped reading there. Is it any good?