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D-Wave doesn't make a general purpose quantum computer. The sense of that statement is that it cannot run Shor's algorithm, though it can factor integers, for example.


Are you a bot? I'm literally responding to this exact criticism. Yes, it's not a general purpose QC. Does that somehow make it (a real product you can use) less useful than a hypothetical QC from some other company that doesn't actually exist yet?

This is like complaining about GPUs not being general purpose. Sure, that's a criticism, but it's not actually that valid.




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