I have the greatest respect for Scott, but I do think he’s being a bit too enthusiastic here in comparison with the D-wave. At the very least I think he should have included this question in his list:
Q: Why can the D-wave not be used to illustrate “quantum supremacy” in a similar way?
(As I understand it the D-wave can sample from the solutions to ”ising model-like” problems, which I assume would be extremely difficult for a classical computer to do (but probably possible to verify).)
Q: Why can the D-wave not be used to illustrate “quantum supremacy” in a similar way?
(As I understand it the D-wave can sample from the solutions to ”ising model-like” problems, which I assume would be extremely difficult for a classical computer to do (but probably possible to verify).)