The speaker believes appropriately designed software should let machines outperform humans in areas suited to machines and at least achieve human-level performance overall.

“much i argued in my book kludge by a lack of location addressable memory and so like you know my daughter just memorized 105 digits of pi which i could never do but it's still nothing compared to what a computer can do memorize billions of digits of pi and so you know there are some advantages to machines and places where they should really be doing better than people if we had the right way of writing the software so at least we should be able to get to human levels like humans are in existence proof”