{"id":137467,"date":"2022-03-29T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/quantum-computing-has-a-hype-problem"},"modified":"2022-03-29T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:25:50","slug":"quantum-computing-has-a-hype-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/quantum-computing-has-a-hype-problem","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing has a hype problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-has-a-hype-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing startups are all the rage, but it\u2019s unclear if they\u2019ll be able to produce anything of use in the near future.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As a buzzword, quantum computing probably ranks only below AI in terms of hype. Large tech companies such as Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft now have substantial research and development efforts in quantum computing. A host of startups have sprung up as well, some boasting staggering<strong> <\/strong>valuations. IonQ, for example, was valued at $2 billion when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90682375\/ionq-quantum-computing-going-public-spac\">it went public in October<\/a> through a special-purpose acquisition company. Much of this commercial activity has happened with baffling speed over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>I am as pro-quantum-computing as one can be: I\u2019ve published more than 100 technical papers on the subject, and many of my PhD students and postdoctoral fellows are now well-known quantum computing practitioners all over the world. But I\u2019m disturbed by some of the quantum computing hype I see these days, particularly when it comes to claims about how it will be commercialized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing startups are all the rage, but it\u2019s unclear if they\u2019ll be able to produce anything of use in the near future. As a buzzword, quantum computing probably ranks only below AI in terms of hype. Large tech companies such as Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft now have substantial research and development efforts in quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}