Eric Bigelow · "The Cognitive Revolution" · How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
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Describes reasoning models enumerating many possible solution paths then back-tracking to choose the best, increasing diversity within a chain of thought
“…we do that through this chain of thought and reasoning and traces… term… serial depth opacity… make sure we can actually still see what the model is thinking”
“The advantage of AI is you can now just do as many tests as you want pretty much, and then you can just choose the absolute best opportunities”
“…chain of thought reasoning…are there as a band-a-aid for latency…we struggled with how much to narrate…progressive disclosure…does it really need to be there for everybody”
“Thanks to AI, you can do that now… you can deploy a bunch of tests and then choose the best opportunities.”
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