> It proved that they could use a quantum computer to compute something that would be infeasible for a classical computer to solve in a reasonable time frame.

> It proved that they could use a quantum computer to compute something that would be infeasible for a classical computer to solve in a reasonable time frame. Yeah, but they were basically computing noise, and it's bloody difficult to say that the ability to do that is meaningful enough to have claimed "supremacy" already. It's a huge premature celebration for a team that has had incredible difficulty trying to scale up beyond a tiny number of noisy qubits; like, good for them, but the purpose of this effort really seems to be to make for good water-cooler conversation among the Google execs than it is to actually do useful science.