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theptip • today at 5:18 PM • 0 replies • view on 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.