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by thom 831 days ago
I've thought for a while that what quantum computing will probably deliver is not going to be magical infinite processing power, but extremely fast, computational access to parameterizable physical processes. That is, a rock can simulate being a rock better than a computer can, but how do you hook it up to the rest of your system? But while I can imagine replacing a simple MCMC model, for example, with a stack of physics-based chips, is there a path all the way to designing, training and executing something LLM sized on top of that technology? I'm not smart enough to know, but as esoteric as it sounds, it feels like it's drawing on the less speculative end of the spectrum, and seems like a noble effort and not an actual scam.