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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by nfw2 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:50AM (#42557224)
depends on the circumstances. lin-manuel miranda can probably write a better musical by himself than a team of 20 people with equal input would.

also, the bottlenecks that teamwork helps solve (eg the high cost of gaining expertise and low throughput of reasoning capacity) may not be that relevant in the ai age

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Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of C... by littlestymaar on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:43AM (#42558964)
> by himself than a team of 20 people with equal input would.

Sure, but the result would still be far better than the average of the output of the 20 individuals taken alone.

> also, the bottlenecks that teamwork helps solve (eg the high cost of gaining expertise and low throughput of reasoning capacity) may not be that relevant in the ai age

It's always tempting to anthropomorphize these systems and conclude that what works for us would work for them, but yes we don't really know if it would bring anything to AI.

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