I stand corrected by Scott Aaronson! [1] One of the things he says is that it would be useful to run IBM's algorithm, not to show that it can be done, but to ve

I stand corrected by Scott Aaronson! [1] One of the things he says is that it would be useful to run IBM's algorithm, not to show that it can be done, but to verify Google's 53-qubit and depth-20 result, as, so far, Google has only been able to present indirect evidence that they are getting the correct result at this size of problem. [1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372