[ExI] Computers are changing humans

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Computers now play chess far better than humans. So young players
train by using computers and now play more and more like computers.
But this applies not only to chess. Computer assistance is changing
humans in many areas.

<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/hans-niemann-chess-cheating-artificial-intelligence/671799/>

A Good Chess Cheater Might Never Be Caught
The line between human and computer play is very hard to find.
By Matteo Wong    October 20, 2022,

Quotes:
Chess is flipping our intuitions about creativity and automation
inside out: Computers don’t just execute ideas but conceive them, such
that to describe a human player as “machinelike” doesn’t only mean
they exhibit great speed and accuracy, like a calculator—the adjective
also implies a qualitative change in how they think.

And it’s not just happening in chess. Humans are starting to take
their cues from machines in many other creative endeavors: Grammarly
assists writers, DALL-E 2 makes art, AI writes code, programs design
clothing.

And maybe chess, a small and nerdy subdomain of human culture, happens
to be at the vanguard of a bigger shift—from the time when computers
could merely improve cognition to the time when they can change it.
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