alt Hacker NewsPerhaps? The sort of quantum computers that people are talking about now are not general purpose. So you might be able to make a useful quantum computer that is not Shor's algorithm.
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gsf_emergency_6 • today at 7:06 AM
Simulating the Hubbard model for superconductors at large scales is significantly more likely to happen sooner than factoring RSA-2048 with Shor’s algorithm.
Google have been working on this for years
Don't ask me if they've the top supercomputers beat, ask Gemini :)
I don't think that's correct, the research projects the article is talking about all seem to aim at making general purpose quantum computers eventually. Obviously they haven't succeded yet, but general purpose does seem to be what they are talking about.