I picture it more like a chess computer on steroids. They have these self-learning AI now. Chess AI now teaches itself how to play chess and gets better at the game the more it plays (and it plays like a million games in a day or something crazy). Then there was that post floating around where the guy says he invented self-learning bots, like twitter bots that would sound more realistic because they would pick up the language that other real humans would use.

Is it possible Q could be some sort of game-theory computer, that can be fed all of the classified information about people, the movement of people by tracking their phones, facial recognition, the patterns of their text messages, etc. Some kind of hybrid of the NSA data computers + self-learning AI, but at a secret military level where the technology is even further ahead of what we know now.

Not saying it's likely but I do wonder!