I always expect to see a James Bond villain or some sexy robot women in the room.
I realized I’ve never actually seen a quantum computer. When I saw this post, I decided to look one up, and expecting them to look like some old storage server or something. I mean they can’t look that antiquated, right?
Then I saw one on the Internet, and realized quantum computers look like THIS:
This is the interior of the computer. They hang it to reduce vibrations as well as thermal fluctuations. I work in a different area of physics, but my uni has one of these quant computers and I’ve spoken to my colleagues who work on it. When they need to run an experiment the whole setup gets enclosed in a vacuum-sealed container and brought down to near absolute zero. Really neat to see in person.
Yeah I really loved the look of the quantum computer in Alex Garland’s Devs
Turns out it’s pretty close to the real thing
Such an amazing show. Watched it blind with no idea of what I was getting into. And the soundtrack is right up there with Arrival’s.
Absolutely. I’ve always been a big Nick Offerman fan and I loved his performance in it, a fantastic show all around.
They get better!!
How are those AI generated images relevant?
Yuh. It’s early days though. They’ll have it in a standardized black or grey box int he next decade or two
That’ll actually be a shame.
The “cheesy sci-fi movie prop” look is usually either heavily influenced by, or quite literally, retrofuturism, which itself is very often inspired by the early computing era. Considering quantum computers are basically in their infancy, they will indeed look like a mix of old/future tech for some time.
It always reminds me of the TARDIS for some reason.
Maybe because they tend to be round. Some of them make me think of the old Cray supercomputer,s but with a ton of extraneous wires and plumbing added to look more futuristic.
