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by IanCal 2430 days ago
> 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.

I thought that the whole point was to show that what you'd done definitely wasn't just build a complex classical processor. The usefulness of the calculation is besides the point.

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Both of you are slightly off.

Quantum Supremacy is more about where quantum computers are clearly superior to non-quantum computers to solve a problem.