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Garry Kasparov: The World Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com)
"Chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten at his game by a chess-playing AI," writes dryriver. "But he does not think that AI is a bad thing." From Kasparov's interview with the BBC:
"We have to start recognizing the inevitability of machines taking over more and more tasks that we used to do in the past. It's called progress. Machines replaced farm animals and all forms of manual labor, and now machines are about to take over more menial parts of cognition. Big deal. It's happening. And we should not be alarmed about it. We should just take it as a fact and look into the future, trying to understand how can we adjust."
Kasparov has given the issue a lot of thought -- last month he released a new book called Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. But he also says that the IBM machine that beat him "was anything but intelligent. It was as intelligent as your alarm clock. A very expensive one, a $10 million alarm clock, but still an alarm clock. Very poweful -- brute force, with little chess knowledge. But chess proved to be vulnerable to the brute force. it could be crunched once hardware got fast enough and databases got big enough and algorithms got smart enough."
Kasparov has given the issue a lot of thought -- last month he released a new book called Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. But he also says that the IBM machine that beat him "was anything but intelligent. It was as intelligent as your alarm clock. A very expensive one, a $10 million alarm clock, but still an alarm clock. Very poweful -- brute force, with little chess knowledge. But chess proved to be vulnerable to the brute force. it could be crunched once hardware got fast enough and databases got big enough and algorithms got smart enough."
A combination of both. The better the algorithm, the less brute force it needs.
Think of it as a lever.
You seem to be unaware of the state-of-the art in encryption. Today, you want > 250 bits of key entropy to be long-term secure. These are infeasible to break with digital computers in this universe (not enough matter, energy and time until heath-death) and even with quantum-computers (should they ever be useful for anything, currently they are not and they may well scale so badly that they never will be).
The one thing you can brute-force in modern crypto done right is bad passwords. But that is about it.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You should also read some of Kasparov's "geopolitical analysis". He's a Putin critic, so people give him the benefit of the doubt, but once you read it you realize he's crazy.