Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence - Slashdot

But as Geist notes there are diminishing returns on many problems which are inherently intractable; so there is no physical possibility of "God-like intelligence" as a result of simply making computers merely bigger and faster. And without a meaningful way to rank two set members by some property, it makes no sense to talk about "increasing" that property. Empires need information processing to function, so before computers humanity developed bureaucracies, which are a kind of human operated information processing machine. The only difference is that a complex AI system could continue to run well after human society collapsed.