Watch as quantum hype gradually replace AI hype. Like AI not all of it will be hype but there will be 80:20 ratio of hype to benefit. And the greatest benefit will be to those who trade on hype. Stating the obvious.
Which, to be clear, could be never. Aside from factoring numbers, solving certain optimization problems, and simulating quantum systems, there are very few known applications where quantum computers even theoretically outperform classical computers.
Of course, it's possible that as quantum computers become more powerful/robust, it will inspire discovery of new classes of problems/algorithms that they excel at. But I'm not holding my breath.
I am talking about the 70s.
AI has cooled in the past, even generating the term “AI winter,” but it’s hot now. Quantum could be big again, but this current wave of specialized computers is played out. There won’t be hype at the level that AI currently gets until there is general purpose quantum computing.
For QC startups it's a different story, but of course startups have to hype themselves into the stratosphere to survive, so I don't really hold it against them (or at least, not any more than I would any other startup).
That’s very different from AI that will be applicable to very general and broad areas
We already have quantum transformers [1], so the PR points are there for the taking.