content: Quantum computing is shit for most general computing applications. It's extremely good for cryptography (and breaking all non-quantum forms of such), has a small edge over traditional processing in a few other areas, and sucks everywhere else. It's not the miracle solution to the end of Moore's Law that everybody made it out to be. As for AI, I believe we should pursue general AI before specialized AI, as we are doing currently. Most of the big tech companies have natural language AI, which is a necessary part of either type of AI moving forwards, and the tech companies are working towards more "General AI" sorts of things, but there are defense contractors that are working on specialized AI for warfare, and I think we should hold off on that kind of AI until we have General AI worked out. General AI has much more potential to benefit mankind (and benefit from mankind), whereas the specialized warfare-oriented AI aren't so well poised to do so and may become SKYNET if they become ever-so-slightly too general.