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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It can be useful if they build enough of these that they can run programs that regular computers can't run at this scale, in less than an hour.

Quantum computers aren't a replacement for regular computers because they're much slower and can't do normal calculations, but they can do the type of problem where you have to guess-and-check too many answers to be feasible with regular computers in many fewer steps.