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I wish they said more about what they will be able to do with those computers.
Broadly speaking, we'll see exponential advances in simulation/modelling capacity especially related to medicine/industry. Possible advances in space exploration (think: newly discovered materials, energy efficiency). State actors will use quantum computing to crack modern encryption as one of the earliest applications.
I think it's way too early to talk about any of that, a lot of the stuff quantum computing promises is still only theoretical and so far there hasn't been a single "real" quantum computer that behaves is it does in the theory.
IBM’s roadmap is pretty aggressive, with users projected to start running “large-scale quantum-centric problems by 2029”
With respect to theory, Google’s 105-qubit Willow processor performed a benchmark task in 5 minutes that would take the world's fastest classical supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete.
I’m not sure this stuff is as theoretical or distant as it might feel.
I'll believe it when I see it tbh, these companies are known to lie through their teeth about this shit, quantum computing is IMO a bubble not too dissimilar to the AI bubble, just maybe less money overall involved.
I guess we'll see what happens once they start applying them.
If LLMs are any indication they can do a bunch of crap really poorly but most importantly make the line go up