Until recently, incident response has been a manual effort prone to human error and inconsistencies. The question for TechOps practitioners: How can adding computer-based automation and analysis improve their game? For TechOps, amplifying humans through automation is profoundly important because the situations are much more complex and dynamic than chess. An advanced chess player marries human intuition with a computer's ability to remember and calculate a staggering number of moves, countermoves and outcomes.īy design, advanced chess brings together human and computer skills to increase the level of play and reduce potential mistakes. Still, it is the human who controls the game. In advanced chess, players use a program to explore the results of moves. Advanced Chess: The Human And The MachineĪfter chess-playing programs became widely available, the combination of humans and chess-playing programs performed better than either did individually.
