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Re:I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't by j_maffe on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:49AM (#41531249)
That is exactly how I describe it to others. LLMs have mostly figured out the fast system but it's woefully bad at system 2. I'm surprised this kind of analogy isn't common in discussions about LLMs.
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Re:I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't by the_jends on Sunday September 15, 2024 @06:24AM (#41546568)
Because LLMs works like how system 1 does, with heuristics such as pattern matching, frequency heuristics, etc. The fall back to coding stuff works not because it's doing system 2, it's because there are many instances of system 2 thinking for this particular problem done by humans so that the instances can be found using the heuristics.
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Re:I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't by j_maffe on Sunday September 15, 2024 @10:58AM (#41547866)
Yeah, I think the analogy here would be how an experienced programmer would write code if asked to write on the spot given a specific prompt with no time to think.
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