Is Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing breakthrough fraudulent? Top scientists say it's "not reliable and must be revisited"
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Microsoft touts its Majorana 1 breakthrough as the world's first topoconductor, but some scientists claim it's unreliable.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    10 days ago

    Of course. Not a single quantum computer has done anything but test programs and quantum-specific benchmarks. Until a quantum computer finally does something a normal computer regularly does, but faster, we should simply ignore this area.

    EDIT: could the downvoters state a single occasion where a quantum computer outmatched a normal computer on a real problem. And with that I mean something more elaborate than winning naughts and crosses, or something like that.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      11 days ago

      until it’s better we should simply ignore this

      That seems like a strange comment to make. How will it get better if we don’t spend the time and effort to make it better?

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 days ago

        The idea is not to have three worthless announcements per week. They can get better all they want, and come back once they have tangible results.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        10 days ago

        Many people in lemmy is highly primitivist and tech conservatives. Meaning that they don’t actually want any technological progress.