Enter the Centaur
Bruce Lee entered our lexicon with his iconic movie, Enter the Dragon. Can artificial intelligence enter our daily corporate decisions with Enter the Centaur? But then what on earth is this Centaur? Before explaining the mechanics of this animal, it is worth asking a simple question. If AI systems are to assist in serious decision making, how should their cognitive roles be structured? Most current uses of large language models collapse description, evaluation and strategy into a single stream of text. The same system describes the world, judges options, anticipates adversaries and recommends action. That is perfectly adequate for drafting emails. It is less obvious that it is ideal for structured strategic reasoning. Centaur is an experiment in separating these functions and creating an artifact that has a novel approach to complex problem solving. It is a human–AI hybrid software construct designed to act as an adjudicator in complex strategic simulations. The current alpha version, ...