Woah, what's with tying this all back to open source and drugs? That last part seems tacked on.

Anyways, computers definitely outdo people by orders of magnitude at computation, and its only recently that they've been able to beat us at pattern recognition. Apply some inductive reasoning and see where that goes.

Besides, humans aren't exactly the perfect beings. Just like we can build cars heavier and faster than us, it's no problem building machines that are beginning to take over what we thought were uniquely human things.