From an interview: Rogoff, who is also the Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University, doesn’t see artificial intelligence as bad for chess. “It’s actually made it more interesting so far,” he says. Having seen how fast AI evolved within the game, Rogoff predicts applications like ChatGPT will be unrecognizable in five
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From an interview:
Rogoff, who is also the Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University, doesn’t see artificial intelligence as bad for chess. “It’s actually made it more interesting so far,” he says.
Having seen how fast AI evolved within the game, Rogoff predicts applications like ChatGPT will be unrecognizable in five years. Advancements will come “faster than you think,” but if the experience of chess is any indication, the technology’s evolution won’t be as “detrimental” as some may fear…
I don’t want to sound evangelical, because I don’t know which way it’s going to go. But, yes. If you look at the experience of chess faster than you think and for longer than you think but also not necessarily as detrimental as you might think. Humans have adjusted. And it’s been very good.
JULIE HYMAN: Well, can you elaborate on that a little bit? You said it’s made chess more interesting. How?
KENNETH ROGOFF: Well, first of all, people have thought a lot of positions were boring. That the computer shows, well, try me at this position, and it turns out to be just wellsprings of creativity positions, where the best player in the world, Bobby Fischer, I think would have maybe even given me a draw back in 1975. Now is the beginning of the game for many players, so this depth of learning. Players venture much more complicated and interesting positions because they have other ways to explore them.
So surprisingly, we thought it would lead to more draws, right? If you figured out better, you’re going to get more draws. Not at all. So here’s this simple compared to human intelligence game, which you would think you would solve out, and yet you find these layers of interest. I think we’ll see this in art and many, many things.
Here is the link, it references the longer chat with some economics of debt and inflation.
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