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Comment by phh

IMO the whole IBM blog is interesting, your quote isn't just a summary.

Basically what IBM is claiming is that Google's circuit doesn't do anything useful really, it is just meant to be very complicated to do in traditional computing systems. And even in this idealized position, Google's quantum computer doesn't transform an unsolvable problem into a solvable one.

According to IBM, "Quantum Supremacy" means accomplishing something useful to the society, that simply wouldn't be possible to do otherwise. Google's article doesn't show any sign of that, IBM claim.

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