Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: Microsoft naming their Qubit architecture after a noted fascist (Majorana) reminds me ...
Microsoft naming their Qubit architecture after a noted fascist (Majorana) reminds me of the time the original version of their “Sparks” AI paper was based largely on references to eugenics-centred racist pseudoscience.
Doing it once might be incompetence, but twice?
https://mastodon.social/@fj/114058565852444444Published at
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