The RCS benchmark, as Google notes in their blog post (but what is not as widely reported), "measures performance against classical computers but has no known real-world applications".
Why it's useful is explained in a somewhat approachable manner in the paper "Sampling random quantum circuits: a pedestrian's guide" from 2020:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07872
Jan Schaumann
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