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After Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, there was a period of about a decade where centaurs (human-computer teams working together) were stronger than either a human or a computer playing alone. The human would use his experience and intuition to guide the computer, which computer would in turn prevent the human from making careless blunders and evaluate millions of positions per second to analyze strategic pathways as the human directed. At the time, a lot of people thought this was the future of chess.

Unfortunately, it didn't last. A few years later chess software and computer hardware got good enough that having a human in the loop at all was a liability, and the centaur era came to an end.

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sTboWTyf9MfERnsKp/gwern-about-centaurs-there-is-no-chance-that-any-useful-man

We are in the centaur era of AI art, where a skilled artist can integrate AI into his workflow to make a better product, or at least to produce an equivalent product faster. The human can sketch a good composition quickly, then use img2img to turn it into an actual art piece, then use his own skills to fix minor details like cloudy eyes or extra fingers. A designer can make a cool character, draw a dozen images of them, then train a LoRA and have the machine spit out thousands of images of the character.

But it's not going to last.

https://ai-2027.com/