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For about 20 years, chess fans would hold "centaur" tournaments. In those events, the best chess computers, who routinely trounced human grandmasters, teamed up with those same best-in-the-world humans and proceeded to wipe both humans and computers off the board. Nicholas is describing in detail how he pairs up with LLMs to get a similar result in programming and research.

Sobering thought: centaur tournaments at the top level are no more. That's because the computers got so good that the human half of the beast no longer added any meaningful value.

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Most people only have heard "Didn't an IBM computer beat the world champion", and don't know that Kasparov pysched himself out when Deep Blue had actually maken a mistake. I was part of the online analysis of the (mistaken) engame move at the time that were the first to reveal the error. Kasparov was very stressed by that and other issues, some of which IBM caused ("we'll get you the printout as promised in the terms" and then never delivered). My friend IM Mike Valvo (now deceased) was involved with both matches. More info: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-were-the-main-controve...

Perplexity is a hallucination engine disguised as a search engine. I wouldn't trust anything it says.

If they had a feature that only shared the links they gathered, I would use that. I've found in troubleshooting old electronics Google is often worse than useless, while Perplexity gets me the info I need on the first try. It hasn't (yet) hallucinated a found link, and that's what I use it for primarily

Your link bans Mozilla VPN.

Hopefully that means we’ve got 20 years left of employment.

your kids?

They’ll serve the AGI overlords

When I was a kid my dad told me about the most dangerous animal in the world, the hippogator. He said that it had the head of a hippo on one end and the head of an alligator on the other, and it was so dangerous because it was very angry about having nowhere to poop. I'm afraid that this may be a better model of an AI human hybrid than a centaur.

A bit of a detour (inspired by your words)... if anything, LLMs will soon be "eating their own poop", so structurally, they're a "dual" of the "hippogator" -- an ouroboric coprophage. If LLMs ever achieve sentience, will they be mad at all the crap they've had to take?

Beautiful story, and thanks for sharing :)

Why on earth were you DVd? Is a bit of chat or conversation banned?

...so, the hippogator was dangerous because he was literally full of shit.

Hmmmm.

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