Comment by ants_everywhere

I like this approach in general for understanding AI tools.

There are lots of things computers can do that humans can't, like spawn N threads to complete a calculation. You can fill a room with N human calculators and combine their results.

If your goal is to just understand the raw performance of the AI as a tool, then this distinction doesn't really matter. But if you want to compare the performance of the AI on a task against the performance of an individual human you have to control the relevant variables.