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1. creativeSlumber · 1790580636 · 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. theptip · 1790615925 · focus · HN ↗

      Very relevant. Modern models use CoT to do “slow thinking” and this enables them to achieve much greater performance. You can also turn off thinking and answer directly which is quite similar to “fast thinking”, good at approximate maths, not capable of algorithms, etc.

      Of course the shapes of what an AI can do in fast vs slow are quite different.

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