That was my interpretation as well. The bizarre bit in the opening paragraph about Sundar saying that quantum computing will magically solve climate change is so baffling and stupid I'd probably want to quit after realizing that was my boss too.
I once worked as a developer for a massive trillion dollar tech company, but the company was terribly dysfunctional and never did any real work, so when I quit I joked about how I was quitting to get into software development. Sounds like the same situation here.
> Pichai said the milestone affirmed his belief that quantum computers might one day tackle problems like climate change
Not sure why the quote is problematic. Is modeling complex systems not a good application of quantum compute? Or is the view that climate modeling is an already solved problem?
I think the issue may lie in the logistics; can QC provide significantly better modeling (significantly in that it'll lead to significantly better outcomes) within a time frame to actually be useful? I, for one, haven't seen any QC system actually do any useful work, which is saying a lot for a multi-billion dollar "industry". It will likely be an incredibly useful technology by the end of my lifetime, but at the moment it is a marketing buzzword.
That's sort of the point, everyone just wants to create a model to further their own personal career instead of actually working on the fucking problem. I guess they just assume everything in the world will automagically fix itself once we have enough qubits?
It's either magical thinking or pure marketing department fiction, I cannot tell which.
I once worked as a developer for a massive trillion dollar tech company, but the company was terribly dysfunctional and never did any real work, so when I quit I joked about how I was quitting to get into software development. Sounds like the same situation here.