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> Two distinct patterns of AI use emerged: “Centaurs,” who divided and delegated tasks between themselves and the AI, and “Cyborgs,” who integrated their workflow with the AI.

It was nice of them to explain that the article was total horse dung before having to read the whole paper

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'Centaurs', 'Cyborgs', 'Unicorns', etc...

These are existing industry terms, 'Centaurs', 'Cyborgs', 'Unicorns', etc... have been around for decades.

Technically, that one sentence you are calling 'BS', actually did describe the situation accurately. And got the message across about the issues being discussed in the article.

Almost like a business consultant, used business terms, to succinctly describe the subject that will be discussed. To quickly get the main points across.

>divided and delegated tasks between themselves and the AI

>integrated their workflow with the AI

What the hell is even the difference? Was the article itself written by ChatGPT?

Centuar is a term of art in the chess community: https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4724

The article certainly didn't invent the term 'Centaur', but I haven't seen cyborg used in that way. It does seem a bit clickbaity.

I like Cory Doctorow’s use in “Chickenized Reverse Centaur”.

Powerful stuff. If anyone wants a short explanation here's one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pieIoEi8Ds

I love it when a complicated set of conditions can be losslessly encoded in a short, easily remembered label.

This was really profound, thank you.

Indeed, I had two double check the authors before finally quickly browsing over it in disappointment

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