“AI agents may not be radically superior to combinations of humans and non-agentic machines”
I’m not sure that the evidence supports this unless the non-agentic machines are also AI.
In particular: (i) humans are likely to subtract from this mix and (ii) AI is likely to be better than non-AI.
In the case of chess, after two decades of non-AI programming advances from the time that computers beat the best human, involving humans no longer provides an advantage over just using the computer programs. And, Alpha Zero fairly decisively beat Stockfish (one of the best non-AI chess programs).
If the requirement for this to be true is that the non-agentic machine needs to be non-agentic AI, I am unsure that this is a separate argument from the one about AI being non-agentic. Rather this is a necessary condition for that point.
(I think Stockfish would be classified as AI in computer science. I.e., you’d learn about the basic algorithms behind it in a textbook on AI. Maybe you mean that Stockfish was non-ML, or that it had handcrafted heuristics?)
My understanding is that starting in late 2020 with the release of Stockfish 12, Stockfish would probably be considered AI, but before that it would not be. I am, of course, willing to change this view based on additional information.
The original Alpha Zero- Stockfish match was in 2017, so if the above is correct, I think referring to Stockfish as non-AI makes sense.
“AI agents may not be radically superior to combinations of humans and non-agentic machines”
I’m not sure that the evidence supports this unless the non-agentic machines are also AI.
In particular: (i) humans are likely to subtract from this mix and (ii) AI is likely to be better than non-AI.
In the case of chess, after two decades of non-AI programming advances from the time that computers beat the best human, involving humans no longer provides an advantage over just using the computer programs. And, Alpha Zero fairly decisively beat Stockfish (one of the best non-AI chess programs).
If the requirement for this to be true is that the non-agentic machine needs to be non-agentic AI, I am unsure that this is a separate argument from the one about AI being non-agentic. Rather this is a necessary condition for that point.
(I think Stockfish would be classified as AI in computer science. I.e., you’d learn about the basic algorithms behind it in a textbook on AI. Maybe you mean that Stockfish was non-ML, or that it had handcrafted heuristics?)
My understanding is that starting in late 2020 with the release of Stockfish 12, Stockfish would probably be considered AI, but before that it would not be. I am, of course, willing to change this view based on additional information.
The original Alpha Zero- Stockfish match was in 2017, so if the above is correct, I think referring to Stockfish as non-AI makes sense.