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> Chess provides a useful parallel here. “Centaur chess” pairs humans with AI chess engines, creating teams that outperform both solo humans and solo AI systems
by dist-epoch 2y ago
> Chess provides a useful parallel here. “Centaur chess” pairs humans with AI chess engines, creating teams that outperform both solo humans and solo AI systems playing on their own. What’s fascinating is that even when AI chess engines can easily defeat grandmasters, the human-AI combination still produces superior results to the AI alone. The human provides strategic direction and creative problem-solving; the machine offers computational power and tactical precision.
Can we stop saying this? It hasn't been true for more than 15 years.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoYup! Anyone who is in AI right now and didn't follow the chess engine world from 15 years ago is basically a fraud. Centaurs are WORSE than chess engine alone for literally at least 15 years now. We had all the same shit that's going on with LLM labs. Benchmarks with elo scores, leading model providers cheating (Rybka), big companies jumping in (DeepBlue), even a fucking equivalent to RAG (pre-made opening books) and I guess an analogy to prompt optimization (end game tablebases?) It's all a repeat of shit I saw in 2009.