The Terminator series, a well-known movie directed by James Cameron, is about a mother, Sarah Conner, protecting her son, John who is destined to be the leader of the human resistance against machines in the future. How is this in any way relevant? Well, there was this idea among computer engineers that we could make computers so advanced that they would do everything for us. However, this idea was proven wrong. In program chess, one testing field for artificial intelligence, computers have evolved enough to beat even the grand masters of chess, but one tournament holds interesting results. A chess tournament several years ago held the following constraints:
any amount of players could be on a team
any amount of computers could be used by that team
The expected results: a supercomputer paired with a grand-master would win the tournament
The actual result: two amateurs and three laptops.
The results of this tournament shows the efficiency of human-computer interaction. As Gary Kasprov, one of the best chess players of all time comments "Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process."
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