Nice article, thanks!
"Who are we to stop them?" - since we have created them, doesn't this mean our capacity is still outreaching the ones of the computers or do you think our own invention will surpass us by far?
I think there are several techniques where you still can beat computers in calculating. Sounds weird but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi as an example.
And as you put it, first the computer bruteforced the matches, then they went ahead calculating with different learning techniques. In the end it will not be about power of calculations but the strategy to choose to use the calculations on.
Bruteforcing is already an archaic method of processing variables.
It'd be the astrolabe and clock vs the GPS.
We still know how it's made, but it's no longer efficient.
"Devi included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 (395) and the seventh root of 170,859,375 (15)"
That's WAYYYY less than 10^585, so less, I cant think of an adequate proportion. Yes, it's an amazing skill; she's to math and computers what Phelps is swimming to fish.