I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but Google hosted a Q&A session with Garry Kasparov, and then posted the video online.

The Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (OECO) is an attempt to operationalize Kasparov's concept of combining human intuition + computer calculating power (see 26 minutes 30 seconds).

FYI: To read more about the "advanced chess peer-review process" behind the OECO, check out: http://oeco.blogspot.com/2011/04/towards-perfecting-advanced-chess.html

Combining human intuition and computer calculating sounds a reasonable idea. 

In many areas science, medicine and engineering do that now in research.