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by yeeeloit 904 days ago
> When what used to cost 1,000 qubits and a complex logic gate architecture sees a tenfold cost reduction, it’s likely you’d prefer to end up with 133-qubit-sized chips – chips that crush problems previously meant for 1,000 qubit machines.

Is it just me (tired, and overworked) or is this poor writing?

edit: Oh man, this article is dreadful, what the heck? Is this ESL or AI or what is going on?

Another example picked at random, that's not even trying to discuss a complex topic:

> It's hard to see where the future of quantum takes us, and it’s hard to say whether it looks exactly like IBM’s roadmap – the same roadmap whose running changes we also discussed here.

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The writer is based in Portugal. I'd blame bad translation and lack of edit by a native English speaker, plus some vague wording that doesn't readily translate.
Exactly, don't attribute to AI what can be explained by poor English skills
Yes this is borderline incoherent
This was clearly not written by a human.
LLMs are almost always grammatically correct (it's one of the first things they learn); it's their semantic correctness/grounding that's lacking. You would be very hard-pressed to get language like this out of any modern LLM that's actually worth using.
> … democratized access to hundreds or thousands of mass-produced Herons in IBM’s refrigerator-laden fields …

#brandnewsentence

Increasingly, poor writing suggests that it was written by a human.