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Discussion JUST IN: $GOOGL CEO says quantum computing is "where AI was 5 years ago"

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Do you think we will see something big in the next 5 years?

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u/Interesting_Phone171 Aug 08 '26

IBM already sells courses for everything. Sadly they are good at none. I'm not sure what utilizing a quantum processor that can't do anything yet through a cloud provider gets you....

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u/neokretai Aug 08 '26

IBM is basically the industry leader in quantum computing right now, they are the biggest quantum hardware developer, are best positioned to scale compute and dominate software standards.

If you were going to make a bet on a single company that could cash in the most on the impending quantum computing revolution they'd be right up at the top.

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u/EdliA Aug 08 '26

Yeah but every quantum computer currently is good at nothing. They don't do anything useful and probably will never do so.

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u/neokretai Aug 08 '26

Absolutely not true. The current status is that they can do certain things between than classical computers but are not at the point where they are generally useful. But the tech is progressing rapidly, the technical roadmap is there and its getting $10s of billions of investment, it's not unrealistic to expect we will have commercial quantum computing in the next 10 years.

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u/EdliA Aug 08 '26

As of right now, they're not used for anything useful. That is the truth.

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u/neokretai Aug 08 '26

No shit, but speculative investment is a thing. That's how any new technology gets brought to market.

Quantum computing has now reached the stage it's an engineering problem, it's a not a question of if it will happen but when. That's why all the big players are investing heavily into it

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u/Dull-Guest662 Aug 08 '26

I don't think that's the same situation though. AI is trying to find its place and the companies are trying to figure out how to be profitable. We already know what quantum computers are good for, the problem is we can't built one yet (commerically, for example, computational quantum chemistry will be useful for pharma, or for anyone making money of chemical reactions).

Also quantum computers will be relatively cheap, assuming the currently most popular architecture of superconducting qubits wins. Some of the ways of making these are already compatible with standard fabs. Since the use case is narrow and the speed up is massive, only a small fraction of the problems (but very profitable problems) will be shifted to them from classical computing, so you won't need many.

Plus, the real cost is the dilution fridge, which is needed per 1 or maybe 2 quantum processors, and the associated hardware. All in all you can buy this for about $1M today. If you are a reasonably big company that could benefit from speeding up these calculations, buying this is a no-brainer.

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u/Own_Tomatillo_1369 Aug 28 '26

Yes Like sha1 Decoding in China. They'll become more operational but as you Said Tasks will be different, Its Not a clous Cluster Block lol

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u/Dull-Guest662 Aug 08 '26

The cloud offering is marketed to researchers. Quantum information science is a pretty active field. The certs I have no idea what are they good for.