Nvidia should be 'shaking in their boots' as quantum computing battles AI GPUs

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pjmlp•about 2 hours ago

If you think programming a GPU is hard, try to learn how to do a factorial on one of those quantum emulators.

Here is Microsoft one,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qdk-main-ove...

petra•about 6 hours ago

Nvidia has more money than God. Worst case they'll buy the competition.

RoyTyrell•about 7 hours ago

yawn Maybe d-wave should put up or shut up. QC companies and bro-advocates have been saying this for years and there's been very little use outside of pure r&d labs.

I don't believe that QC is going to have the ease of use, time to deployment, and relative low-cost that GPUs are going to have any time soon - if ever.

cwillu•about 5 hours ago

QC could have all of those things and it would still not be a threat. Using a quantum computer for general computation is like using a front-end loader to go grocery shopping: it's a spectacular improvement for the task it's designed for, and utterly useless for the vast majority of other tasks.

Melatonic•about 5 hours ago

....do quantum computers and GPUs have a lot of overlap in the types of tasks they compute ? I was under the impression they solve quite different problems

duskwuff•about 5 hours ago

Do present-day quantum computers compute any nontrivial tasks (i.e. beyond factoring the number 15)?

cwillu•about 5 hours ago

Correct, there's almost no overlap.

hank808•about 4 hours ago

No.

mgh2•about 4 hours ago

Sounds like another hype cycle coming...

Nvidia should be 'shaking in their boots' as quantum computing battles AI GPUs

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