Yesterday, I came across Kasparov's Law for the first time, and I found that it encapsulates my thoughts on the role of AI in business and beyond far more succinctly than I could express myself.

Kasparov famously lost a 6-game chess match in 1997 to Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM for the express purpose of winning chess matches against human players using a brute force approach to calculating optimal chess moves.

He has spent a considerable amount of time since thinking about the "man versus machine" conundrum, and arrived at a very interesting conclusion:

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Kasparov reminds us that not only has chess never been more popular (even more true in 2023), but also that the human players today are the best players that ever lived because of AI.
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Kasparov wants to reframe the conversation from "man versus machine" to "man with machine." He suggests the phrase "augmented intelligence" – humans acting with the assistance of artificial intelligence. He spent two decades exploring how humans could play chess with the assistance of AI and coined "Kasparov's law":

(weak human + strong process + machine) > (strong human + inferior process + machine)
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In essence, when humans work collaboratively with AI, supported by well-designed processes that effectively utilise the strengths of both forms of intelligence (referred to as 'humans in the loop'), their performance will surpass even that of highly skilled individuals working with AI in circumstances that do not optimise for both human and machine intelligence.

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