A tool for augmenting human capacities
Although computers may never become sentient, they can do many things better than humans can — and humans can certainly do many more things better than computers are able to do. This is not an either/or discussion. This is a fact.
Computers are good at repetition because they do not get bored or lose focus. As such, they excel at scanning and evaluating massive amounts of information. They do not lose interest and will evaluate the same or similar input datasets as many times as directed to do so, and they will not complain that the task is repetitive, boring, or seemingly pointless. Indeed, computers can routinely perform brute-force repetition of tasks so swiftly that when scaled up to billions of operations per second, it may seem like human cognition – but it is not. What these countless calculations can do, though, is enable computers to perform impressive feats, accessing large amounts of information, comparing billions...