Hype Watch: Weeks After Microsoft Disappointed Investors With "Hey Hi" It's Trying Some "Quantum" Hype (Adding Impractical Vapourware to Accompany This Hype and Even LLM Slop in 'News' Clothing)
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Latest hype wave from Serial Sloppers: (proofs of concept are decades old!)
SCIENTIFIC-sounding terms (that arouse intrigue or invoke "the unknown") - or terms like "Quantum" - are often misused; Mozilla did that some years ago and that didn't have anything to do with QC, it was just some buzzword that helped created hype around performative overhaul in Firefox ("Quantum").
IBM has nothing to offer (in Clown Computing it's mostly a reseller), so as noted 2 days ago IBM's lousy CEO starts name-dropping "Quantum". So does Microsoft this week, maybe even Google (in recent weeks). Microsoft is bleeding and it tries to crush media that talks about it. It needs to change the subject, too.
I am no QC guru, but the consensus is that QC is mostly hype and NVIDIA says its commercial potential is only or at least decades away, if not longer (if science in Western civilisation or east Asia survive that long). Until then it's more of a "lab experiment" or borderline "sci-fi" for geeky media which so talks about "flying cars". Fantasies about the perceived impossibilities do sell (not products but words).
"Quantum" is just some nonsense that "suits" tell to shareholders who rightly express concerns and scepticism of "hey hi". They're begrudgingly coming to recognise it's little more than a bubble that repurposes old things but compensates for a lack of novelty with purchased "media coverage" and unprecedented brute force (read: total waste of power; no returns foreseen).
When these charlatans and liars are done telling us to wait a while longer for actual sales/profits in "hey hi" they will move on to talking about the "quantum arms race", the "quantum era", the "quantum revolution" et cetera while paying some media to play along, worshipping naked emperors with new (invisible) "quantum" clothes.
Remember "metaverse"? What happened to media hype about "blockchain" and "IoT"? █