I gave ai agents ADHD.. its 2x better at thinking now
Summary
A researcher proposes a method called 'ADHD - Parallel Divergent Ideation' that uses tree-of-thoughts to give AI agents divergent thinking, inspired by ADHD, but with significant trade-offs in cost and speed. The project is open-source.
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