At the very least the machines are being used to experimentally verify quantum correction algorithms. See, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02297 https://arxiv.

At the very least the machines are being used to experimentally verify quantum correction algorithms. See, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02297 https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02297 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01866 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01866 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00990.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00990.pdf