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Why I Coined the Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’

Why I Coined the Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’

5 years ago
Anonymous $MUlyiGRWxa

https://www.wired.com/story/why-i-coined-the-term-quantum-supremacy/

A recent paper from Google’s quantum computing lab announced that the company had achieved quantum supremacy. Everyone has been talking about it, but what does it all mean?

In 2012, I proposed the term “quantum supremacy” to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t, regardless of whether those tasks are useful. With that new term, I wanted to emphasize that this is a privileged time in the history of our planet, when information technologies based on principles of quantum physics are ascendant.