"The idea, he explained, is to try to figure things out for yourself."

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/steven-poole-can-algorithms-ever-take-over-from-humans/

Slaves to the algorithm

Computers could take some tough choices out of our hands, if we let them. Is there still a place for human judgement?

by Steven Poole

"But in chess, at least, the algorithm has not displaced human judgment. The imperfectly human players who contested the last round of the Candidates’ Tournament — in a thrilling finish that, thanks to unusual tiebreak rules, confirmed the 22-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen as the winner, ahead of former world champion Vladimir Kramnik — were watched by an online audience of 100,000 people. In fact, the host of the streamed coverage, the chatty and personable international master Lawrence Trent, pointedly refused to use a computer engine (which he called ‘the beast’) for his own analyses and predictions. The idea, he explained, is to try to figure things out for yourself."