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Computational Creativity, Talk by Dylan Beattie [video] (youtube.com)
36 points by mcp_ on Jan 9, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



At the 45 min mark, he says that "The astonishing thing here is, a reasonably good human chess player with a reasonably good computer is better than any supercomputer". That may have been the case for a brief period of time and a narrow interpretation of "reasonably good", but for well over a decade, humans have had practically nothing to add to the strength of the top chess programs.


This is taken out of context. Before this quote (by about 30 seconds), he quotes Magnus Carlsen, current world chess champion as saying "I don't play computers anymore, they always win." The dominance of computers is acknowledged, before it is used as a way to show how to combine human and machine intelligence.


A human (Dylan) performing a Fake-Metallica song with lyrics and music generated by AI. Welcome to a new age! Hilarious!


Thanks.. that was quite entertaining, and eye opening.




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