Alphaq_asr

Do you think there will ever be a quantum advantage or a quantum speedup that can be achieved with today's Noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices? If so, which field is set to benefit the earliest? Is it in chemistry, machine learning, or cryptography? If not, when can one realistically hope that quantum computers/quantum sensors can do certain tasks (with real human value) better than classical ones? Is it possible in our lifetime? Can you give an example of a problem where quantum devices can out-perform current state-of-the-art methods?

As a beginning graduate student, are these exciting times or over-hyped times?

Thanks a ton.
ASR

Do you think there will ever be a quantum advantage or a quantum speedup that can be achieved with today's Noisy intermediate scale quantum devices? If so, which field is set to benefit the earliest? Is it in chemistry, machine learning or cryptography? If not, when can one realistically hope that quantum computers can do certain tasks (with real human value) better than classical ones? Is it possible in our lifetime?