There is huge gap between special-purpose automatons(which this matchbox array with operator is essentially) and general-purpose computers. You can pretend that

There is huge gap between special-purpose automatons(which this matchbox array with operator is essentially) and general-purpose computers. You can pretend that turing machine device is a universal computer, but in real world any turing machine would be incapable of doing anything outside of its purpose. The human mind is considered the most "generic" device in the world: the emergence of equally generic AI which can handle any task with human-level genericity and huge computing power will shift the game towards AI dominance. Its like inventing an Oracle that predict the best path to take, it would accumulate influence over our lives even if its just essentially a dumb neural network at its core with zero self-awareness and "sci-fi sentience". Like a 'Paperclip optimizer' gone generic. People seeking Deus ex Machina will consider the advice of a computer more reliable that human advice and place any blame to flaws in algorithms and human programming.Most people can't handle the idea that a program can be wrong by design, not by flawed intent of programming. So such an Oracle will be considered a flawless machine that can't do any wrong, relying on "flawed" human experts diminishes and we begin to live under control of some weird AlphaGo-based paperclip maximizer.