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yeeeloit | 2 years ago

> When what used to cost 1,000 qubits and a complex logic gate architecture sees a tenfold cost reduction, it’s likely you’d prefer to end up with 133-qubit-sized chips – chips that crush problems previously meant for 1,000 qubit machines.

Is it just me (tired, and overworked) or is this poor writing?

edit: Oh man, this article is dreadful, what the heck? Is this ESL or AI or what is going on?

Another example picked at random, that's not even trying to discuss a complex topic:

> It's hard to see where the future of quantum takes us, and it’s hard to say whether it looks exactly like IBM’s roadmap – the same roadmap whose running changes we also discussed here.

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Zigurd|2 years ago

The writer is based in Portugal. I'd blame bad translation and lack of edit by a native English speaker, plus some vague wording that doesn't readily translate.

isaacfrond|2 years ago

Exactly, don't attribute to AI what can be explained by poor English skills

bglazer|2 years ago

Yes this is borderline incoherent

forgetfreeman|2 years ago

This was clearly not written by a human.

Philpax|2 years ago

LLMs are almost always grammatically correct (it's one of the first things they learn); it's their semantic correctness/grounding that's lacking. You would be very hard-pressed to get language like this out of any modern LLM that's actually worth using.

jameshart|2 years ago

> … democratized access to hundreds or thousands of mass-produced Herons in IBM’s refrigerator-laden fields …

#brandnewsentence

dr_dshiv|2 years ago

Increasingly, poor writing suggests that it was written by a human.