fun fact: before chess AI was as good as it is today, there were occasional matches between what they called "chess centaurs", where a skilled human player would use a chess AI as a consultant for advice on what moves to make
this practice has largely ended because chess AIs are now able to reliably beat grandmasters so a chess centaur these days would just be a human following the AI's directions, basically equivalent to two AIs playing each other with humans moving the pieces for them
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I now have to wonder if it could be fun to play that way with a purposefully limited chess AI.
@Tryn you certainly could, but you'd want one at not that much higher a level than you yourself
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@Felthry "chess centaur" is a truly wonderful name.
@starkatt It really is. We learned it when a question asking why centaur matches were so uncommon today showed up on that bit of stackexchange where they put popular questions.
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@starkatt we were very confused because it only used the word "centaur" and never defined it, just talking about "matches between centaurs" and it felt like the question was a joke but it had serious answers so we looked it up
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@Felthry
i think i remember seeing a short essay by Asimov describing human-machine collaborations as akin to centaurs. i wonder if this is a reference to that?
@Felthry Huh /neat!/