Sabine has the science you're after

Sabine Hossenfelder is one of the people I regularly watch on the YouTube platform. She is a physicist but also veers into other areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

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For her latest video — In Which I Lose Faith In Quantum Computing — she makes a number of interesting observations. In short, apart from some very specific applications, quantum computing, even if it is scalable from current technology, has limited application. It also has the potential of bringing down a number of current companies highly focused on this technology, or at least some of their divisions. Artificial intelligence takes up a lot of the space that quantum computing could do well in, but for the present at least, AI does it better. The next 10 years, or less, will be important to see how both of these directions develop, or not. If you are interested at all in physics, maths and occasionally quantum computing, then Sabine Hossenfelder provides some interesting perspectives.

I 've learned a new word this week — workslop. This is the machine-learning equivalent of spam. As noted in earlier articles, Al can make people lazy. According to an ongoing study by Stanford's Social Media Lab and behavioural research business BetterUp Labs, 40% of US workers are reporting that workslop has crossed their desk over the past month.