Why do you say that current quantum computers are fake? As far as I'm aware they exist at a small scale. At this point isn't it mostly of a matter of getting costs down and cooling them so you can get enough q-bits to do something really useful?

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Because I used to be involved in a tiny bit of it.

Don't get me wrong, they are a beautiful invention in the intersection of physics and engineering. But the algorithms that people are interested in were executed only on ion computers... which are not that great in the sense of scaling. The supercubit quantum computers, which you are probably talking about, are only good for stimulating themselves for a fraction of a second. And don't make me start to talk about neutral atoms, NV centers and "liquid light" platforms.

The only good they are making is sucking money for fundamental physics from big cats like google, amazon, putin and ccp