IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

jeanmichelselli•9 minutes ago

These machines do not provide any computational speedup, we have plenty of papers coming from academic physicists clearly showing this. Why these people insist with their narrative is beyond my comprehension at this stage (maybe, artificially increase the value of their market shares?)..

P.S. I was involved in semiconductor physics and quantum computing way before it became a buzz word.

y-curious•about 2 hours ago

I don’t understand who the target audience of these ads is. For most people, including myself, this is like seeing an ad for “New and Improved Time Machine! (Untested)” or “Magic Beans - Indica”.

d3m0t3p•about 1 hour ago

I agree that they should be doing a press release and a separate technical deep dive.

Here they mix both and don’t get the public. It has always been IBM problem to correctly target the product to the audience.

We see it here again

Brotkrumen•23 minutes ago

Everyone who is curious? I mean did you know that you can run something on a real quantum computer for free? Go try out something new, or are we only getting excited about the newest AI slop machine release these days?

Angostura•about 1 hour ago

Investors

ofrzeta•about 1 hour ago

Tangential question: do quantum researchers benefit from LLMs in any way?

marzchipane•about 1 hour ago

Quantum software engineer here - yes! I use Claude quite extensively with quantum SDKs like Qiskit and Pennylane. It tends to be very good at scaffolding and architecture, but can spiral or be outright incorrect when it comes to implementing certain algorithms like QAOA.

The real benefit comes from real-world integration - if I'm exploring e.g. a logistics application, it can source real-world data and models very quickly, and suggest quantum appropriate-formulations. Nevertheless, a lot of hand-holding is required.

zarzavat•about 3 hours ago

What's the largest semiprime it can factor?

upofadown•about 1 hour ago

You can attempt 15 yourself if you want:

https://towardsdatascience.com/where-are-we-with-shors-algor...

If you run it over and over again you will eventually get 3 or 5...

d3m0t3p•about 1 hour ago

They are currently targeting more material science, such as quantum chemistry for drugs discovery or new material discovery. They can’t and do not aim to do prime factorization on those.

Aboutplants•about 1 hour ago

Good

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