Unfortunately, with the state of the #job#market (ie, #labor#sector) for #Quantum#computing, the prospects for hiring newer talent seems to be diminishing. While my predominant focus in the #arXiv papers that I have been posting and submitting to journals this year has been for my own interest to explore new ideas between #Mathematics and #Physics, often times companies will be far too quick to brand such works as “too theoretical.”
Nevertheless, I continue to strongly believe that exploring #foundations of #Quantum#information, which indeed some industry practitioners may claim as “too theoretical,” determines whether near term #algorithms that they can run can be achieved with at least polynomial speedup. Of course, albeit the fact that #exponential#Quantum advantage was mentioned repeatedly throughout the #NISQ era, there are very few examples of such advantage.
This only goes to show how “pure play” #Quantum companies which have experienced a significant rise in the stock market over the past year could easily be in a #bubble of its own, much like how many speculate that #AI is in a #bubble. Obviously, without a doubt #AI is in a #bubble of some sort. It is completely unrealistic to claim that there will be, along the words of “visionaries” 99% #unemployment. However, at the same time though, #Quantum companies (like Q-CTRL, Rigetti, and others), are relying too much on #AI in their marketing. It greatly waters down what commercial services that they can offer; furthermore, before the #AI hype cycle ramped up, these companies barely mentioned #AI in any of their previous press releases. While other industrial players similarly try to offer #error#correction#software that can be called with a few lines of code, “mainstream” near term applications are still several years away. While many people are enthusiastic for such prospects, including myself, I think that it’s best to wait at least a few years before devoting significant time. It is very speculative as to whether the stock evaluations of the “pure play” #Quantum corporations will hold up.
Pete Rigas
Unfortunately, with the state of the #job #market (ie, #labor #sector) for #Quantum #computing, the prospects for hiring newer talent seems to be diminishing. While my predominant focus in the #arXiv papers that I have been posting and submitting to journals this year has been for my own interest to explore new ideas between #Mathematics and #Physics, often times companies will be far too quick to brand such works as “too theoretical.”
Nevertheless, I continue to strongly believe that exploring #foundations of #Quantum #information, which indeed some industry practitioners may claim as “too theoretical,” determines whether near term #algorithms that they can run can be achieved with at least polynomial speedup. Of course, albeit the fact that #exponential #Quantum advantage was mentioned repeatedly throughout the #NISQ era, there are very few examples of such advantage.
This only goes to show how “pure play” #Quantum companies which have experienced a significant rise in the stock market over the past year could easily be in a #bubble of its own, much like how many speculate that #AI is in a #bubble. Obviously, without a doubt #AI is in a #bubble of some sort. It is completely unrealistic to claim that there will be, along the words of “visionaries” 99% #unemployment. However, at the same time though, #Quantum companies (like Q-CTRL, Rigetti, and others), are relying too much on #AI in their marketing. It greatly waters down what commercial services that they can offer; furthermore, before the #AI hype cycle ramped up, these companies barely mentioned #AI in any of their previous press releases. While other industrial players similarly try to offer #error #correction #software that can be called with a few lines of code, “mainstream” near term applications are still several years away. While many people are enthusiastic for such prospects, including myself, I think that it’s best to wait at least a few years before devoting significant time. It is very speculative as to whether the stock evaluations of the “pure play” #Quantum corporations will hold up.
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