“One of AI’s futures is imagined as a wise and patient Jeeves to our mentally negligible Bertie Wooster selves: “Jeeves, you’re a wonder.” “Thank you sir, we do our best.” This is possible, certainly desirable. We can use the help. Chess offers a model: Grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Hans Berliner have both declared publicly that chess programs find moves that humans wouldn’t, and are teaching human players new tricks. If Big Blue beat Kasparov when he was one of the strongest world champion chess players ever, he and most observers believe that even better chess is played by teams of humans and machines combined. Is this a model of our future relationship with smart machines? Or is it only temporary, while the machines push closer to a blend of our kind of smarts plus theirs? We don’t know. In speed, breadth, and depth, the newcomer is likely to exceed human intelligence. It already has in many ways.”
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Pamela McCorduck, What do you think about machines that think?
Freestyling is the combination of humans and ai in chess matches, which beat the strongest human and ai chess players. It is one of the key skills for the future (see Work skills for the future: Freestyling.
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/120351872432
