Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and bring reliable, fault-tolerant quantum computers closer to reality.

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    4 days ago

    The same statements were made about cars, airplanes, the internet, cell phones, medicine, etc. AI is just the latest “big thing” to have gotten this treatment.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      No, I’m more apt description is cryptocurrency. Something that was hyped as the Advent of something important and turned out to be just a circle jerk for a bunch of already rich people.

      In technology something actually has to demonstrate value and utility. We can’t just describe it for no reason.