As far as I&#x27;m concerned, it doesn&#x27;t work until Scott Aaronson says it works.<p>EDIT: My comment was kind of snarky and curt without much info; I need to be better about that. I did read Scott&#x27;s post when it was published, and the consensus I got from it is that D-Wave&#x27;s device achieves a constant-factor speedup, not a quantum one. I just think, with that being generally accepted by all parties now, it&#x27;s pretty disingenuous to keep calling it a &quot;quantum computer&quot;, when it&#x27;s really a (faster) classical computer that uses quantum mechanical effects. I mean, the Intel chip in my laptop also uses QM effects because the feature size is so small, but nobody calls it a quantum computer. Maybe that&#x27;s the media&#x27;s fault though. Are D-Wave&#x2F;Google themselves still saying &quot;quantum computer&quot;?<p>SECOND EDIT: Rereading Scott&#x27;s post more carefully, it seems like Google and D-Wave are now calling it a &quot;quantum annealing device&quot; and are more forthcoming about the lack of quantum speedup. So unless they&#x27;re talking out of both sides of their mouth and still saying &quot;quantum computer&quot; to the popular press to build hype, I guess everyone is a reasonable person after all and it&#x27;s the media&#x27;s fault as usual.