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UK chancellor Rachel Reeves: ‘Quantum is an area within AI’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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When you’re out of ideas, why not try magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdj84ipgLYA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260317-uk-chancellor-quantum-is-an-area-within-ai - podcast

time: 6 min 39 sec

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both a series of tubes.. uh.. nano tubes, yeah! With blockchain fugability

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyone remember graphene? Not the OS, I mean the material. Where are the 4 kilometre skyscrapers and 400 GHz CPUs?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

wait, I totally had something for this... TERF AI-land

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Is this... technocracy in collapse...

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

all in on refrigerated probability sculptures

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Magic is like science but with wishing

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

The stupid… it burns

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Quantum mentioned, drink!

(No really dont forget to drink water and take any meds you need people).

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's in a superposition of being both AI and not AI before anyone checks, that's how quantum work right? No wait! Don't check! [* Reality Destruction Noises *]

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

And now that we've got Quantum within AI, just imagine everything you can haul within Quantum

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

And I can have you unfuck my wife. Sure.