Comment by petercooper

I'm always intrigued when phenomena observed in the brain carry across to artificial systems. The idea of multiple modes of thought reminds me of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the idea of system 1 vs system 2. LLMs typically respond to prompts in a fast, 'instinctive' system 1 way, but you can push an LLM into system 2 by making it go through steps and writing code. Originally this idea was presented as a bit of a workaround for a limitation of LLMs, but perhaps in the grand scheme of things it's actually the smart approach and we should never expect LLMs to consistently perform system 2 style tasks off the cuff?