Can we get an edit on the titel?
This article is about an upcoming publication by a team from China and has nothing to do with Google nor it being challenged.
This article is about an upcoming publication by a team from China and has nothing to do with Google nor it being challenged.
"But some quantum researchers contested the claim, on the grounds that a better classical algorithm that would outperform the quantum one could exist3. And researchers at IBM claimed that its classical supercomputers could in principle already run existing algorithms to do the same calculations in 2.5 days."
I'm not sure what you would change the title to. This one seems to accurately describe the article.
Ironically, this article is from December third, so the Chinese experiment being well known is only because past articles like this!
Secondly it's exciting to see countries around the world do cutting edge research, like Japan bringing back the Ryugu samples.
Thirdly it's HN rules to copy the original article title.
Fourthly "Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’" implies the profession of Physicists are saying Google’s ‘quantum advantage’ is incorrect or something.
1. to engage in competition
2. to dispute the truth or validity of
And the article uses the word in both senses -- the headline is that Chinese physicists are challenging Google in the first sense. But the article body mentions that other researchers have challenged the Google result in the second sense. Overall, it seems like a confusing choice of words by whoever wrote the headline.
Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
But - rightly or wrongly - Google's earlier claim figures heavily in the article also.