UK chancellor Rachel Reeves: ‘Quantum is an area within AI’
When you’re out of ideas, why not try magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdj84ipgLYA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260317-uk-chancellor-quantum-is-an-area-within-ai - podcast
time: 6 min 39 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/17/uk-chancellor-rachel-reeves-quantum-is-an-area-within-ai/ - blog post
@glyph @davidgerard "Quantum computing will create 100,000 UK jobs."
I'm fucking ded. Just ded.
@theorangetheme @glyph It's a new old grift, same as the old old grift. I used to joke that the only ways to make money in quantum computing are selling parts and selling lies.
Not much has changed on that front since I've retired from the field.
Anyway, I fully agree with @davidgerard that quantum computing is real and also that it's not yet here. I would be very surprised if it turns out that QC is fundamentally unworkable at a commercial scale, but we're not there yet.
@theorangetheme @glyph @davidgerard Eh, it's not nearly so bad as that. It's a mix of "very hard engineering problems," "science questions that'll win a Nobel Prize or two," and "wait, I need how many Tesla cards to run all this?"
It's far from being a purely academic question at this point, but it's not *not* an academic question either.
@theorangetheme @glyph @davidgerard Oh, you wish it'll be that cheap.
But yeah...
@theorangetheme @glyph @davidgerard I say that in part as someone who did a lot of work on quantum programming languages and real-time quantum algorithms, because it's at a point where locking some of that down is helpful, even if the hardware isn't there yet.
Some of that is research, some is good ol' fashioned software engineering. The hard part is knowing which is which, heh.
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