[the__prestige]

TFA article mentions 5 use cases that are supposedly "within the coming decade" and uses terms such as "few million qubits" "more qubits than are currently available" and "within reach", basically implying that there aren't any use cases possible now. This seems to reinforce skepticism[1] expressed by other researchers that practical uses of quantum computing will very likely be different from what we thought possible before, quote - "big compute" problems on small data, not big data problems.

As a newbie I seriously would like to know - are there ANY known real world applications of quantum computing that are possible today?

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/research/disentangling-hype-from-practi...