Let's consider the cuckoo - an artist who sings well. Building a nest everytime it needs to lay an egg is tedious, which is why it decided to outsource its entire parentage off to crows.
Let's consider humans - biological machines that think well. Doing repetitive work manually is tedious which is why they created a digital intelligence solution, successfully outsourcing labour.
Adversity is a better mother of invention because under difficult conditions, nature and compute works in tandem.