{"id":177001,"date":"2023-11-29T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/analyst-panel-says-take-the-quantum-computing-plunge-now"},"modified":"2023-11-29T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:23:44","slug":"analyst-panel-says-take-the-quantum-computing-plunge-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/analyst-panel-says-take-the-quantum-computing-plunge-now","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Panel Says Take the Quantum Computing Plunge Now\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/analyst-panel-says-take-the-quantum-computing-plunge-now.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should you start exploring quantum computing? Yes, said a panel of analysts convened at Tabor Communications HPC and AI on Wall Street conference earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Without doubt, the quantum computing landscape remains murky. Yet in the past ~5 years virtually every aspect of quantum computing has raced forward. At least one 1000-plus-qubit system is edging towards user access now and another is expected by year-end. There\u2019s been a proliferation of software offerings up and down the \u201cquantum stack\u201d though it\u2019s hardly complete. Most promising, what were a few POC use-case explorations has mushroomed into very many efforts across many sectors.<\/p>\n<p>What are we waiting for? Against the backdrop of astonishing progress are also very hard technical problems. Error correction\/mitigation tops the list. Effective quantum networking is another. Polished applications. Too many qubit types to choose from (at least for now.) Scale matters \u2013 it\u2019s expected that millions of qubits may be needed for practical quantum computing These aren\u2019t trivial challenges. Why bother?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you start exploring quantum computing? Yes, said a panel of analysts convened at Tabor Communications HPC and AI on Wall Street conference earlier this year. Without doubt, the quantum computing landscape remains murky. Yet in the past ~5 years virtually every aspect of quantum computing has raced forward. At least one 1000-plus-qubit system is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177001","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\/177001","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}