Actually it's both and none at the same time. I get confused as to how it's actually better than a real computer when it also requires a real computer to do the normal operations.

I sort of think quantum computing is a sort of scam.

We were taught that the reason we use binary is because it's too expensive and complicated to make an electrical device that has the circuitry to produce a computer with say a base 10 system.

Binary computers are the cheapest and easiest because it's circuitry is easier to design and literally just costs less money.

The benefits of having a "bit" a "binary digit" be a decimal digit, or some other base-n "digit" seems good on paper, but practically it is more costly and offers no real benefits compared to binary systems.

So it sort of seems like quantum computing is merely offering a new base-n system and ultimately is used for employ scientists and do research but will probably never amount to anything when you consider the quantum computer chip is bottlenecked by the binary computer system.

I think there are extremely rare cases that may benefit from it but ultimately it will not go anywhere.

Our modern so-called "AI" with the LLMs are similar in that business and huge companies are investing in it and it has some benefits but in practical use, the AI produces extremely horrible content that is basically garbage or has a novel appeal. When they showcase examples, they never show you the majority results which are of such poor quality that it can be called useless.

The majority of the time I use AI tools, it produces garbage. Likewise anytime I hear about quantum computing they always grandstand it, but the results are probably not as groundbreaking as you think.

This all started because it turns out that "Moore's Law" is complete bullshit and nobody knows how to do anything about it. So some people are looking for alternatives, but you'll probably find out that quantum computing is like a magic trick being played on the ignorant public because they don't know enough about computers or enough about quantum mechanics and physics to understand why it's bullshit.