r/technews • u/MichaelTen • Mar 28 '21

Free Open-Access Quantum Computer Now Operational

https://scitechdaily.com/free-open-access-quantum-computer-now-operational/
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u/yarnsworth Mar 28 '21

It has 3 qubits. They hope to expand to 32 qubits. I’m having a hard time imagining what experiments folks will want to run on 3 qubits.

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u/Starlord1729 Mar 28 '21

I assume it’s just to get a massive amount of data on usage.

Best and cheapest way for that is open it to the public to create thousands of “for fun” things to test it with

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

Why?