Show Notes
The AI industry spent years insisting that smarter meant bigger, then discovered that letting a model think longer can help a smaller one outperform a model roughly fourteen times its size. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down test-time compute (the extra reasoning a model does after you hit enter), why "think harder" settings are suddenly everywhere, and why more thinking can also mean more cost, more lag, and machines that overcomplicate easy questions. She explains when maximum reasoning actually earns its keep, why "think step by step" has become a ritual worth retiring, and how a simple generate, audit, revise loop gets better answers out of the same model. Bigger brains and longer thinking are not the same thing, and knowing the difference is now part of using AI well. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup
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