[ExI] Computers are changing humans

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't know about others, but the programs Google uses for spell checks
and grammar are pretty stupid and incomplete.  bill w

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:15 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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> BillK
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