The Quantum Era Has Begun

2 mathgenius 1 5/7/2025, 4:35:07 PM time.com ↗

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cevi · 12h ago
"For instance, global pharmaceutical companies are advancing both disease research and the frontier of quantum-enabled drug discovery. And in automotive and aerospace, companies are using quantum computing to improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts and electric batteries mobility. Companies like ours are currently using quantum hardware to generate truly random encryption keys—making systems more secure against today’s threats and tomorrow’s quantum-enabled ones."

Given what I know about the current progress towards building a useful quantum computer, this is complete nonsense. No company out there has anywhere near enough qubits with enough coherence to solve any real problem more efficiently than brute force on a classical computer. We'll get there eventually - maybe in just a few years - but anyone who tells you it is already here is a bullshit artist.