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Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

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  1. creativeSlumber · · focus · HN ↗
    How relevant is this fast/slow thinking thing with regards to current frontier models?

    I know a large organization who's built their AI framework completely around this concept, and I feel that it's not really meaningful concept with the capabilities of current models.

    1. emp17344 · · focus · HN ↗
      Seems like a terrible idea in the first place to build an entire organization around a single pop-sci book, but that’s just me.
      1. glial · · focus · HN ↗
        System 1/2 is the pop version, but the fast/slow distinction is prevalent in both RL and computational cognitive science, sometimes going under different names: procedural/deliberative, model-free/model-based, automatic/controlled, associative/rule-based, autonomous/algorithmic, etc.
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