The fact this prize exists is admitting that no one has figured out a use for quantum computers.
I have heard this mentioned several times in the last decade or so : "The only thing a quantum computer definitively does better than a classical computer is simulating a quantum computer."
Whether this capability is useful is up in the air.
Note that in practice, classical computers are going to be better at factoring numbers for the foreseeable future.
I have heard this mentioned several times in the last decade or so : "The only thing a quantum computer definitively does better than a classical computer is simulating a quantum computer."
Whether this capability is useful is up in the air.
Note that in practice, classical computers are going to be better at factoring numbers for the foreseeable future.