Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition
teleforce
45 points
4 comments
September 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
jannyfer
> submitted Oct 5 2021 (In case people miss that before discussion)
bbor
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...
crorella
It looks like a lot like how data bases query optimizers work, with the exception that in the paper there is also a learning/memory component that conditions the evaluation of the answer provided by the first model.
red75prime
It reminds me of "At the time we drew boxes labeled 'perception', 'cognition' with arrows between them." An imprecise quote that I can't place. I guess my box labelled 'subconsciousness' is trying to say that low-level mechanisms that give rise to the observed cognitive phenomena might have nothing to do with neat boxes.