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Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition

16 pointsby 1h agoarxiv.org
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23m agoHN ↗

submitted Oct 5 2021

(In case people miss that before discussion)

5m agoHN ↗

This is still a great paper, but it's missing the second axis of the quadric -- if the only two options are thinking fast or thinking about thinking, that leaves no room for thinking slow yet deliberately, AKA selfconsciousness. See https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4280/pg4280-images.html for details

I do wonder if any of these folks ever got a chance to try this at one of the big labs, tho...