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Centaur
Definitions
- 1 The constellation and zodiacal sign Sagittarius.
"The Centaure, the horn'd goatfiſh Capricorne, The ſnake-heard [sic] Gorgon, and fierce Sagittar."
- 1 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. Greek
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of centaur. alt-of
- 3 (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse wordnet
- 4 One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. also, capitalized
- 5 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."
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- 6 A human and an AI who work together. broadly
"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."
Etymology
From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).
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