Lili SaintcrowHuh. I’m starting to see some publishing-adjacent folks who were all hot to jump on the “AI” slopwagon apparently having second thoughts.
Interesting.
(What’s the technical term for when the second-string or fellow-traveler grifters start leaping from the doomed ship?)
Dan Sugalski@lilithsaintcrow for the AI grifters? I think the term is “Check out my new quantum computing startup!”
@wordshaper Ooof. Yeah, you're right; by all indications, “quantum" is the new grift, and they're starting to ramp that up now.
Charlie Stross@lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper The "quantum" grift failed to launch back around 2004, if memory serves, but it's been bubbling under ever since.
Given the current focus on LLMs I reckon the next bubble could well be quantum machine learning, which crosses the streams:
Thomas Sturm
slowtiger
Dr David Mills@dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper NFTs of quantum large language models on the blockchain, hosted on orbital data centers for efficient cooling!
I know, I know, SOMEONE will pay me money for it.
@dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper … But I forgot to work in new nuclear reactors somewhere. Or maybe Lunar 3He mining to fuel the aneutronic fusion reactors we don't know how to build yet (instead of being sensible and running them on 11B, which is lying around in heaps and drifts on Earth).
Chuckles
Ian Campbell 🏴@celeduc @cstross @dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper wait wait don't forget "zero trust" from the cyber end of things
@neurovagrant @cstross @dtl @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper my zero-knowledge proofs are self-evident, tyvm
@neurovagrant @celeduc @cstross @dtl @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper Zero Trust One Shot Twice Encrypted
OldCoder
fdr@tsturm @cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper ahem, you mean Crypto Quantum Large Language Models in the Blockchain
Kofi Loves Efia 
@tsturm @cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper
Cold fusion powered Quantum Large Language Models on the Blockchain IN SPACE
@Seruko @cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper We are about to close a billion dollar funding round for this idea TONIGHT.
@tsturm MERICA
Angus McIntyre@tsturm @cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper … in Your Internet of Things-connected Self-Driving Mobile SmartHome™!
@angusm @tsturm @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper In the 70 years' hence future of the 1950s, TV watches *You*!
Sven A. Schmidt
Olivier Roux (moose)
synlogic4242
Mark von ÜbelgartenQuantum computing is as real as quantum mechanics and so is the vulnerability to have the name stolen by charlatans.
(On a side note, it has been some time that I don't get quantum pseudoscientific trash on my feeds ... But perhaps because I kept these scammers/crackpots out of my personal bubble)
@vonubelgarten @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper
Yes, quantum computing is real—but so far it's also useless for any practical purpose (hey, you want to find the longest common prime factors of 31? Break a leg!).
So anyone touting for investment who promises useful results, let alone quantum supremacy, is almost certainly a charlatan. Unless they admit they're still doing basic engineering R&D. In which case the vultures like a16z will give them a wide berth.
James T Monkey@cstross @lilithsaintcrow @wordshaper Looking forward to InfiniteMonkeyPilot being shoehorned into Office. Because every possible combination of words can be calculated instantly, you just need to select the one you want.