I had the opposite take on LLMs using Kahnemann's framework.
Maybe I need to reread his book, but I think of System 1 as "fast, reflexive, instinctive" mental activity, and System 2 as "slow, deliberative, rational, verbal" thought.
So exactly inverse to this article, I characterize LLMs as 100% System 2, and would say that what's missing in AI is the more "embodied" System 1 intelligence.
My current thinking is that the experience of consciousness is closely tied to that embodied, emotional side of our nervous system, and is 100% lacking in LLMs. Anthropic people will say "the models have neural correlates of emotion", and that's fine, our cortex also has neural correlates for emotions and for much of what happens in the cerebellum and brain stem. That doesn't mean that that's where the primary function is implemented.
I have never heard of ”System 1” and ”System 2” thinking before.
Wikipedia implies it’s just some pop-sci (psychology even, so extra pop) book from a few years ago. A book heavily criticized for relying on shoddy science. Why are the terms used to describe anything by anyone trying to sound serious or scientific?
> In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, despite being a research psychologist, for his work in prospect theory. Kahneman stated he has never taken a single economics course – that everything that he knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from their collaborators Richard Thaler and Jack Knetsch.
Because a truly massive portion of managers/leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. "System 1/system 2","agentic <buzzword>", etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it up, regardless of how much (or little) they understand.
> One of Kahneman’s best known contributions to AIthought is the System 1 System 2 metaphor he brought tobear on human cognition in his book Thinking Fast andSlow.
I read this book published in 1974 called 'inner game of tennis' that has the same metaphor. Its one of the book i read every once in a while even though i dont play tennis anymore.
I had the opposite take on LLMs using Kahnemann's framework.
Maybe I need to reread his book, but I think of System 1 as "fast, reflexive, instinctive" mental activity, and System 2 as "slow, deliberative, rational, verbal" thought.
So exactly inverse to this article, I characterize LLMs as 100% System 2, and would say that what's missing in AI is the more "embodied" System 1 intelligence.
My current thinking is that the experience of consciousness is closely tied to that embodied, emotional side of our nervous system, and is 100% lacking in LLMs. Anthropic people will say "the models have neural correlates of emotion", and that's fine, our cortex also has neural correlates for emotions and for much of what happens in the cerebellum and brain stem. That doesn't mean that that's where the primary function is implemented.
I have never heard of ”System 1” and ”System 2” thinking before.
Wikipedia implies it’s just some pop-sci (psychology even, so extra pop) book from a few years ago. A book heavily criticized for relying on shoddy science. Why are the terms used to describe anything by anyone trying to sound serious or scientific?
> In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, despite being a research psychologist, for his work in prospect theory. Kahneman stated he has never taken a single economics course – that everything that he knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from their collaborators Richard Thaler and Jack Knetsch.
System 1 Vs 2 aren't even Kahneman's invention. They are from Stanovich and West.
Because a truly massive portion of managers/leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. "System 1/system 2","agentic <buzzword>", etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it up, regardless of how much (or little) they understand.
Its all Kahneman...whose book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
Feel free to substitute these terms for "default mode network" and "execute control network" if you're looking for rigor.
Are we making up words again?
All words are made up
> One of Kahneman’s best known contributions to AIthought is the System 1 System 2 metaphor he brought tobear on human cognition in his book Thinking Fast andSlow.
I read this book published in 1974 called 'inner game of tennis' that has the same metaphor. Its one of the book i read every once in a while even though i dont play tennis anymore.
I'm struggling to get through TFaS, really don't understand how it became such a 'PopPsych' (if that's a thing) classic.
It's like a collection of the obvious, the wrong, and autobiography of someone you haven't otherwise heard of.
It'a probably obvious to you because of cultural osmosis.
Of that class of book, the game is to pretend to have read it. A little like quoting a play having read a book of quotes.
Kahneman book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
+1 on the inner game of tennis. It had a big influence on how I think about my own mind.
isnt this how flash models are made?