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The Vergecast

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The Limits of Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is using qubits. The problem, they're scaling up the number of qubits. But qubits are in different states. They're not ones and zeros. Sometimes they're in the wrong state. There's errors in it. And so what's limiting it is actually how many qubits we can get. We have to do a lot of error correction. It turns out that getting the data into a computer and correcting it is going to use a ton of conventional networking and a ton of AI.

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