The idea behind Bengü-1
System One models
A System One model is a fast, narrow model. It returns a typed decision with a probability, instead of prose.
- Speed
- Fast
- Scope
- Narrow
- Answer
- A typed decision, not prose
- Comes with
- A probability
Two speeds of thought.
Daniel Kahneman made System 1 and System 2 widely known in Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). The terms come from Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
System 1
Fast and automatic.
System 2
Slow and deliberate.
A decision, not a paragraph.
A System One model does one narrow job, quickly. It answers with a typed decision and the probability that goes with it. It does not answer in prose.
Prose
A typed decision
- decision
- typed
- probability
- attached
- prose
- none
Our stance: routine goes fast, unsure goes up.
Routine, narrow decisions go to the fast model. When confidence is low, the decision escalates to a reasoning model or a human. Every decision carries its probability and an audit trail.
Every decision carries its probability and an audit trail, in either lane.
On a Saturday service
The hands know the sauce. When a server says “allergy at the table”, the question goes to the chef.
The autopilot
Routine decisions. The hands know the sauce.
Up to the chef
Uncertain decisions. “Allergy at the table” goes up.
Routine decisions go to the autopilot, uncertain decisions go up. Usta is built the same way.
Usta, by OrkhonWhat we promise
Zero hallucination. No generated prose, only typed decisions from a defined set. Each can still be wrong, so each carries its probability and audit trail.
Sources
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The book
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). It made System 1 and System 2 widely known.
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The terms
System 1 and System 2 come from Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
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System One model
We take the term from TypeSafe, which uses it for its Jev model.