from Hacker News

CEOs who aren't yet preparing forquantum are 'already too late,' IBM exec says

by donutloop on 5/28/25, 10:38 AM with 3 comments

• by whatevermom on 5/28/25, 11:33 AM

  Quantum, AI, blockchain… billions invested but I’m not sure if it’ll ever be worth it. We could just be happy with what we had, use the money to uplift everybody, but instead, we’re on a wild goose chase for magic technology that will solve all of our problems.

• by ben_w on 5/28/25, 11:22 AM

  https://archive.ph/8EpOF

  Honestly, I don't see the urgency here. Yes, quantum algorithms give speed-ups in specific problems, but very few people are doing those kinds of problem: Most businesses that need an efficiency boost are people who accidentally did O(n^2) instead of O(n) (I've seen this IRL), or who should index their database so search is O(log(n)) instead of O(n); very few are doing e.g. a travelling salesman with big-n and need to care about the approximate classical algorithm being only a few percent from optimal.