I believe that is a fact.
I believe that we have or will have shortly computers that can "think" well beyond what a human can conceive of (even our smartest) and give us answers well beyond our capabilities to come up with on our own.
This may be a double edge sword, both very good and very bad.
This may be a double edge sword, both very good and very bad.
I've read articles about that. A lot of people are nervous about the prospects of artificial intelligence becoming a reality. I can't say that I blame them. Our machines could quickly become smarter than we are. Remember HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Men will develop these machines, and it's up to them to program them in such a way that they're benign and beneficial intelligences.
But, we depend upon the morals and ethics of those people to protect mankind from a potentially deadly outcome. Who knows if it might grow beyond their capacity to control? The movie, "The Matrix" comes to mind.
If I may comment.... Machines are only as good as the people who design+build them. Creativity is not in the realm of computers, contrary to what Hollywood thinks.
I would agree with you, however, that computers are faster and more accurate than humans, and will respond to specific sets of inputs far more quickly. So, your argument is true, to a point. If the humans who designed computers, say, told it "In events 'a', 'b', and 'c' occur, your response will be thus" ... then, computers will beat humans nearly every time.
Where the wild card comes in, is when events 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'X' occur ... if the computer hasn't been programmed to respond to 'X'. Humans (most humans) can handle the wild card - judge whether it needs a response, measure what the response should be, and so forth. Computers can't do that, and I don't see it on the horizon, either.
'Tis the reason why things like computer-controlled driving (PopSci had a big article on it recently) and such scare the hell out of me. There's no way to control for all possible inputs, ergo, the system may be successful 99% of the time, but the failures in the other 1% will be spectacular. This is fine when the worst that can happen is a crunched fender while parallel parking....not so much at 70 mph on a computer-controlled freeway.