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datsci_est_2015yesterday at 4:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is the most important comment in this entire thread IMO, and it’s a bit buried.

This is the fundamental limitation with generative AI. It only generates, it does not ponder.


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schnableyesterday at 5:22 PM

You can define "ponder" in multiple ways, but really this is why thinking models exist - they turn over the prompt multiple times and iterate on responses to get to a better end result.

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spogbiperyesterday at 5:10 PM

what is the difference between "ponder" and "generate"? the number of iterations?

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