System 1 vs. System 2 Thinking in AI

• System 1: Fast, intuitive, and automatic processing (typical of current AI models)
• System 2: Slow, deliberate, and analytical processing (what researchers aim to replicate)

Meta's research into TPO and System 2 distillation represents attempts to bridge these two modes of thinking in AI, aiming to imbue models with deep reasoning capabilities without sacrificing processing speed and efficiency.