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by wydfre 1802 days ago
No, quantum supremacy has been displayed already by google[0].

[0]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-pr...

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That's an example of what I meant by problems that "are specifically contrived to show quantum supremacy". Scott Aaronson explains this quite well:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

> So, tl;dr, the quantum computer is simply asked to apply a random (but known) sequence of quantum operations—not because we intrinsically care about the result, but because we’re trying to prove that it can beat a classical computer at some well-defined task.