QCman

Many of the points made why successful organizations invest in new technologies are very weak. Successful organizations got that way by making many more smart decisions than dumb decisions.

Occam’s razor suggests that organizations investing in adiabatic quantum computing do so for reasons the participants of this blog don’t have access to.

Several universities and corporations have QC R&D projects (eg. Alibaba, Google, IBM, Microsoft); none have their QC machines in production for anything (in fact they don't even have customers). Something to think about.

Several universities and corporations have QC R&D projects (eg. Alibaba, Google, IBM, Microsoft); none of these corporations have customers for their QCs.

Here is MIT Technology Review's article on www.kindred.ai

Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.” The ultimate goal is to create a new kind of artificial intelligence.

Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.” The ultimate goal is to create a new kind of artificial intelligence.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603745/how-a-human-machin...

This is what LANL has to say...

http://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/1663/2016-july/not...

OK, but that doesn't explain why D-Wave has so many paying customers (Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Labs, University of Southern California, Temporal Defense Systems, US government, CIA/In-Q-Tel).

Do you have information not available to the organizations that have spent over $60M on D-Wave computers? Why are you wasting your time here?

The actual price for a D-Wave machine is more than $10M. It's a good sign that the first customers have continued their support by upgrading to the newer models.

Here's the list of D-Wave supporters (organizations that have spent real $): Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Labs, University of Southern California, Temporal Defense Systems, US government, CIA/In-Q-Tel. At over $10M per machine, this adds up to at least $60M. Surely the critics in this blog are missing something.