Top players routinely use them in preparation, to study new lines, get hints about what moves make sense in a position and also to generate new ideas or tweak the principles they apply in the game. The engines don't explain their reasoning, but provide something closer to the "correct" move in any given position. It's up to the humans to do the legwork and understand _why_ the recommended move is strong.
Clearly, chess is not real life, but the impact of these oracle engines has been broadly positive (with the exception of using engines to cheat in online play).
But when it comes to raw intellectual superiority, say, explain the logic behind new mathematical or physical concepts and discoveries, very high level predictions, we come to our human limit and cannot surpass it.
The AI can give us implants to improve our intelligence, but only to a certain limited degree, our biological brain will slow us down significantly.
That is the barrier we cannot possibly cross in a timespan of human life.
Was working for a brokerage as an intern, IT gopher stuff, pretty much my first office job.
A month in, I’m told by my boss to delete a directory on the file server. Which I do. I scurry off and rm -rf it, think it’s taking a while, so saunter out for lunch.
Turns out that that directory was an active mount point for the root of the filestore on which they kept all of their user drives, legal documentation, everything. rm had got about halfway through wiping it before they pulled the plug on the machine.
Turned out they didn’t do backups, because “nothing like this ever happens”.
My boss’s boss flipped his desk over the incident, hurled a monitor tree at me like a battleaxe while purple and screaming, incandescent with rage. My direct boss of course fired me. I was literally booed out of the office by the traders, who chucked cups and bottles and crap at me as I did the walk of shame. Grown-ass men. I was 18.
I learned then that most people everywhere just want someone to blame for their own shortcomings, and being that person can be a valuable service if correctly structured.
Edit: I lie. I learned no such thing at the time. It dented my confidence and gained me a reputation in the city - and not a good one. It was however one of the formative experiences that led to me starting my own business, and never, ever treating anyone (or allowing anyone in my business to be treated by anyone else) in the fashion I was treated.
Did you misunderstand? I don't see the logical conclusion