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During a Google podcast below[1] a host (reportedly with a PhD in Quantum Mechanics) expressed a similar opinion as you at first, then started to take the threat more seriously as he heard from an experienced Google colleague.. This was in 2024 before the Google Willow announcement[2]. Thank you for your thoughtful response!

1. https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ep164-qua...

2. https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantu...

I just asked the question because I wonder if getting more responsive/agile to security protocol updates should become more of a norm. Why not start as an example of that here if it doesn't take much cost/time/effort? For whatever reason it doesn't seem like just security theater. NIST, Google, Apple, and others seem to be taking this admittedly unknown threat seriously. It's good to balance skepticism with curiosity here I think (the podcast episode below agrees). The certainty of this happening anytime soon is publicly unknown of course, but if in the rare chance it happens, even within a decade or two, the consequences could be serious. Apparently it was Richard Feynman, perhaps amongst others who raised the question regarding quantum computers according to this interesting Google podcast. During the podcast a host reportedly with an apparent PhD in Quantum Mechanics started to take it more seriously.. Thank you for your thoughtful response! https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ep164-qua...

Genuinely don't know why anyone would use it when you have perplexity, gemini, chatGPT search, etc. at your disposal.

LLMs hallucinate/confabulate. I use Wikipedia to check source info and to find additional information. Of course there are more reliable sources than Wikipedia, but it's useful, still.

The system uses cameras, sensors, and software tools to determine, for example, “how much a participant contributes to a meeting vs performing other tasks (e.g., texting, checking email, browsing the Internet).”

It implies your company is recording what's going on your computer and on your phone, too, not just from body language and facial expressions!

So toxic/dystopian.

For those interested in more background on NOAA and making money from it, I highly recommend reading The Fifth Risk[0] by Moneyball author, Michael Lewis[1]. It details how a couple private companies make a lot of money using NOAA data in interesting ways (e.g.: crop insurance (now acquired by Monsanto)). Another of those companies is AccuWeather whose CEO was appointed to head NOAA by Trump[2].

P.S.: Anyone notice that monitoring "Climate" was absent in the government announcement?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1324002646

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis

[2] https://oceanleadership.org/trump-taps-accuweather-ceo-head-...