At the end of last year I finished reading Range by David Epstein 

One of the interesting things that came out of reading this was the discussion about how Chess has changed, since AI engines became strong enough that they could not be directly beaten.

There was an analysis presented by from Garry Kasparov was about how he had mastered a large collection of chess tactics. Essentially he could map from a situation on the board  to an appropriate play to respond. As his “library” of tactics was better than other players he became the strongest player.

While not a chess player, this made me recall how the best players (well better players than me) won in the Street Fighter 2 video game. Find the best combo for a player (Normally Guile as he had a 4 hit combo and everyone else had 3) and then get tactically very good at applying those combos in a bout.

The best human players were beaten by the Chess AI engines when that became better at this tactics led approach to playing they the game. The famous games being against Deep Blue. A Chess Engine running on the smart phone is as strong as Deep Blue that beat Kasparov in the 90s. But now a new form of advanced chess has formed with AI Engines running tactics but with human “generals” guiding an overall strategic direction. This has led to new type of specialists in the game. Those who can direct their AI’s better that their opponent.

In a world of automation and increased AI usage. This has to be the model we look at and train our people operate in. How can the future of work be based around centaur’s operating using AI to assist in solving complex problems.