There is something endearingly batshit about IBM's latest quantum computer hardware resembling a chunk of a steampunk analytical engine—chromed tubes! Discs that resemble gears! Brass highlights!—and then they spoil it by talking about using generative AI to make programming the thing easier.
"Out Of Cheese Error, Redo From Start."
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@cstross Maybe they've just given up on being able to debug it altogether.
"Alright boys, there's an off-by-one bug in here somewhere, but the only interface is an AI chatbot that tells us the code looks different every time we ask and the whole thing is based on the premise that none of the qbits will decohere on us at the wrong moment. Screw this, let's go for a pint."
@VoxDei @cstross that sounds too implausibly rational for them...