> He said: “This is a very nice demonstration of quantum advantage. While a great achievement academically, the algorithm used does not really have real world practical applications, though.
> “We really must get to utility quantum computing – an era where quantum computers with many thousand qubits actually begin to deliver value to society in a way that classical computers never will be able to.”
This seems to be the most level headed take from the paper and an explanation why (if claims are to be believed) we haven't seen anything useful come from quantum computing yet that couldn't be done by classical computers.
Maybe it still is all hype and the reason we haven't seen a useful calculation is because the only problems it can solve better than others happen to be especially contrived. I guess time will tell.
> “We really must get to utility quantum computing – an era where quantum computers with many thousand qubits actually begin to deliver value to society in a way that classical computers never will be able to.”
This seems to be the most level headed take from the paper and an explanation why (if claims are to be believed) we haven't seen anything useful come from quantum computing yet that couldn't be done by classical computers.
Maybe it still is all hype and the reason we haven't seen a useful calculation is because the only problems it can solve better than others happen to be especially contrived. I guess time will tell.