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There have been XPRIZE competitions for vehicle efficiency, oil spill technology, more efficient rockets, health sensors, AI systems, genomics, etc.

Whether or not quantum computers have practical applications, the prize itself is not evidence of that.

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> There have been XPRIZE competitions for vehicle efficiency, oil spill technology, more efficient rockets, health sensors, AI systems, genomics, etc.

All of which are based on existing technologies that have been delivering for decades if not an entire century (vehicle efficiency). Even something as nebulous as "AI systems" has been around for twenty years in the form of Google's original semantic search capabilities.

This "Quantum AI" prize, however, is a solution in search of a problem.

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