Economy What worries people more AI or Quantum Computing

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Fat fingered it

Right in the butt

In application speed is defining feature of Quantum computing.

Think of AI as intuitive software that can limit the amount of human inputs and fulfill tasks by reasoning on its own - within the parameters we give it. It will have different levels of this and with that, the possibility of creating its own parameters with very little or no human influences.

QC is a more focused on using principles of quantum mechanics in hardware in order to apply those mechanics in very specific applications. Most notably quantum positioning - but also the possibility of tunneling and entanglement

Best analogy I can give is a line maze - as super difficult as you could imagine. With classical computing - the way it would solve it is by taking one path at a time, as fast as it's hardware will allow, until it found the correct path. In quantum computing, it would take all possible pathways at one time (super positioning) it also theoretically just bypass the maze walls to get to the end (tunnneling) and communicate information with all other lines as if it were one hive (entanglement)

Applications of that include code breaking - in which could bypass any encryption.

 

[avenue94]

I kinda agree with this I have a 70 billion parameter model running on my desktop somewhat slowly but still running. I could get it running faster by pulling out my other big GPU with the machine I am currently and adding 24 gigs of VRAM on the board to collectively give me 48 gigs just to AI processing. llama 3.3 70 billion parameter model running with two RTX 3090Ti boards. Rumor the RTX 5090 board will have 32 gigs of VRAM but cost nearly 3k.

A more blunt way of phrasing my original content is that the average person has absolutely no idea what quantum computing is versus classic. I'm sure there will be dumb start ups in 10 years saying how quantum is going to be a consumer product. Huge potential to upend society, but in a different way that will effectively be invisible to most people.

I too think quantum computing because we have only started to scratch the surface and already it has done in minutes what classical computers would have taken centuries. But it could be very possible that Quantum Computers will need AI to operate them to their most effective way or a hybrid approach that would need AI to decide what part of a problem can run on a Quantum computer VS traditional computer. Either way could be interesting.

It's never going to replace classical computing though, it just opens up effectively enterprise level or country level problem solving that was previously not scalable.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

Yeah Google just made a qc breakthrough with the Willow chip that allows error correction at larger scales or something like that.

I think AGI is further away than people think, IF it's possible at all. But QC is about to snowball forward. So qc is scarier right now.

 

[Satsui Ryu]

QC is concerning from a security perspective, but I think overall Ai will have much further reaching impacts.

 

[Prutfis]

Human stupidity worries me more

 

[no fat chicks]

I selected both, in the wrong hands( I don't know if there's right hands) they could become catastrophic.

 

[Xanzito]

QC worries me more, not an expert on the subject, but from i've been reading, shit could break every encription made... how about bitcoin and shit? Could it break the blockchain encryption? Military systems?
Shit seem scary

 

[avenue94]

QC worries me more, not an expert on the subject, but from i've been reading, shit could break every encription made... how about bitcoin and shit? Could it break the blockchain encryption? Military systems?
Shit seem scary

Possibly some of those, but keep in mind bitcoin is already not anonymous, that was broken years ago.

 

[PEB]

AGI — real AGI — is the end of humanity due to the alignment problem

Well according to the cofounder of Google AGI real AGI comes at the end of 2026 to 2027 Deepmind founder downplayed that talk.

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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Google I/O 2025 recently. On day one of the developer conference, a fireside chat with DeepMind's CEO, Demis Hassabis, was scheduled. However, when the session started, he was joined by Brin. Throughout the session, both spoke about artificial intelligence (AI), the new Gemini tools, capabilities of the company's new models, and the roadmap to artificial general intelligence (AGI). The Google Co-Founder also revealed the reason behind his coming back from retirement.

Sergey Brin and Demis Hassabis on AGI​

The fireside chat between Brin, Hassabis, and Big Technology's founder, Alex Kantrowitz (moderator), was live-streamed on YouTube on May 21. One of the biggest talking points of the conversation was AGI and how Google looks at the technology.

Hassabis explained that for him, AGI is a theoretical construct about what the human brain, as an architecture, can do. The point is, humans, with the same brain architecture, can do a wide range of tasks. These include creativity, rational thinking, scientific exploration, and most importantly, true innovation. AI models, on the other hand, cannot handle the entire spectrum. While some models are fine-tuned to be better at some tasks, generalistic models are just average at everything."

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Back to Quantum computing I never understand why they continue to push for near absolute zero operation of a quantum chip. Functionally seems to make zero commercial sense as components breakdown pretty quickly when operating at these superconductive temps. I used to work with machines that operated at -100C to try to make chips fail. Everything seems to burn these chips overtime. Cannot image going -400 degrees F over any length of time. While quantum computing via lasers may be less then a billions of a second slower but able to do it nearly room temp without insanely expensive chillers and giant liquid nitrogen tanks. It feels more and more like a cash grab as companies want to operate these massive machines on the cloud.