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Google and XPRIZE launch $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers
Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary computer, but none of those problems has any practical use. Google and XPRIZE hope to change that
Google and XPRIZE are launching a $5 million competition to find practical uses for quantum computers that could actually benefit society. “There’s a lot of rather abstract mathematical problems where we can prove quantum computers give very, very large speed-ups,” says Ryan Babbush at Google. The prize will judge entrants’ algorithms on a range of criteria, such as how large their impact could be, whether they tackle problems similar to those outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and how feasibly they can be run on machines that are available now or in the near-future.
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