As an aside... >the computers are doing what? Looking at a variety of information and judging what will happen Probably but not necessarily. That code which i

As an aside... >the computers are doing what? Looking at a variety of information and judging what will happen Probably but not necessarily. That code which is explicitly understood and written explicitly to weigh information to choose outcomes certainly is. But were complex neural networks are extensively involved, they become a black box. In markets where gains could be maximized by cooperation, those systems that find ways to cooperate with other systems outside their organization will eventually be chosen and become the dominant. Chosen purely from their ability to get better results. Even if completely isolated, signaling is not impossible. A straight forward technique would be to use transactions to communicate in the same way bridge players do. So potentially software could outperform humans for at least two reasons: better and faster analysis of data. But also doing things humans are unable.