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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

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161 points roboboffin | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 18:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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outworlder ◴[20 Nov 24 21:36 UTC] No.42198355[source]▶
So, an inherently error-prone computation is being corrected by another very error prone computation?
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leptons ◴[20 Nov 24 22:36 UTC] No.42198861[source]▶
I've never seen so much money spent on a fundamentally flawed tech, since maybe Theranos. I'm really starting to doubt the viability of the current crop of quantum computing attempts. I think there probably is some way to harness quantum effects, but I'm not sure computing with inherently high margin of error is the right way to do it.
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1. zeroxfe ◴[21 Nov 24 19:19 UTC] No.42207632[source]▶
> fundamentally flawed tech, since maybe Theranos

That's a pretty dramatic claim. We've had to (and still have to) deal with the same class of problems when going from analog -> digital in chips, communications, optics, etc. etc. The primitives that reality gives us to work with are not discrete.