In the very long run it's hard to see that we could compete with arbitrary scalability and lightning fast operations.
In present and imminent situations, I thing Louis Rosenberg had an exceedingly important point in
"Imagine a flying saucer lands in Time Square and an alien steps out carrying the game of Go. He walks up the nearest person and says the classic line – “Take me to your best player.” Now, let’s assume that the alien spent years studying how humans play Go, watching replays of every major match.
If that was the situation, it would seem Humanity was being set up for an unfair challenge.
After all, the alien had the opportunity to thoroughly prepare for playing humans, while the humans had no opportunity to prepare for playing aliens. The humans would likely lose. And that’s exactly what happened last month when an “alien intelligence” named AlphaGo played the human Go master, Lee Sedol. The human lost in 4 out of 5 games. But, if we look at the big picture, it wasn’t a fair match."
"Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Just About Intelligence, but Manipulating Humanity: AlphaGo's true accomplishment isn't learning to play Go, but learning to play (and manipulate) us." (https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-isnt-intelligen...)
, around the last AlphaFoo.
"Imagine a flying saucer lands in Time Square and an alien steps out carrying the game of Go. He walks up the nearest person and says the classic line – “Take me to your best player.” Now, let’s assume that the alien spent years studying how humans play Go, watching replays of every major match.
If that was the situation, it would seem Humanity was being set up for an unfair challenge.
After all, the alien had the opportunity to thoroughly prepare for playing humans, while the humans had no opportunity to prepare for playing aliens. The humans would likely lose. And that’s exactly what happened last month when an “alien intelligence” named AlphaGo played the human Go master, Lee Sedol. The human lost in 4 out of 5 games. But, if we look at the big picture, it wasn’t a fair match."