I suppose my question would be - are we in the early fifties or still back in the forties?
By 1951 there were stored program computers that were running real programs that did useful things. Yeah, they were super-expensive, unreliable, and laughably limited by today’s standards, but they were a real thing and even at that stage they had applications that people who weren’t tinkering with the machines themselves cared about.
We don’t have that with quantum computing yet, do we?
I don't think that there is a 1:1 mapping. If this is any datapoint, there are several companies (including the one for which I work) that offer cloud access to their quantum machines, letting other labs/companies develop algorithms to solve their real problems with these machines.
I suppose my question would be - are we in the early fifties or still back in the forties?
By 1951 there were stored program computers that were running real programs that did useful things. Yeah, they were super-expensive, unreliable, and laughably limited by today’s standards, but they were a real thing and even at that stage they had applications that people who weren’t tinkering with the machines themselves cared about.
We don’t have that with quantum computing yet, do we?