centaurs

Noun

centaur (plural centaurs)

1. (Greek) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

   Synonyms:

   hippocentaur

2. (also, capitalized) One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
3. A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
   • This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159
4. (broadly, artificial intelligence) A human and an AI who work together.
   • The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise.2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend (The FT View section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8

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