We see a similar thing with Ai / ML where there is a huge amount of hype but applications of quantum computation are only restricted to searching an unstructure

We see a similar thing with Ai / ML where there is a huge amount of hype but applications of quantum computation are only restricted to searching an unstructured database, finding prime factors of a number , solving a linear system of equations , computing knot invariants and the obvious one which is quantum simulation. [1] It would be better just exposing this as a library of functions and then hooking it up to a cloud service to solve. Which Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have. Microsoft and IBM are using their own hardware And Amazon is reselling other providers. [2,3,4,5] Researching post quantum cryptography algorithms are already on their way [7] but most likely feasible quantum computers are 80 years away when I was reading a great deal of quantum algorithm papers as a class and I asked the professor how long it would take. The interesting strategy if you were to hack a organization which has encrypted backups would be to exfiltrate the backups and then wait for a quantum computer that could break it which is why post quantum encryption needs to be researched but the algorithms involved are still in their early stages. Post [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm [2] https://quantumai.google/hardware https://quantumai.google/hardware [3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computin... [4] https://aws.amazon.com/braket/ https://aws.amazon.com/braket/ [5] https://www.ibm.com/quantum https://www.ibm.com/quantum [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography?wpro... [7] https://pqcrypto.org/conferences.html https://pqcrypto.org/conferences.html