OpenAI’s Big Reset
With its new model, the company wants you to think ChatGPT is human.
By Matteo Wong Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: CSA Archive / Getty. After weeks of speculation about a new and more powerful AI product in the works, OpenAI today announced its first “reasoning model.” The program, known as o1, may in many respects be OpenAI’s most powerful AI offering yet, with problem-solving capacities that resemble those of a human mind more than any software before. Or, at least, that’s how the company is selling it.
As with most OpenAI research and product announcements, o1 is, for now, somewhat of a tease . The start-up claims that the model is far better at complex tasks but released very few details about the model’s training. And o1 is currently available only as a limited preview to paid ChatGPT users and select programmers. All that the general public has to go off of is a grand pronouncement: OpenAI believes it has figured out how to build software so powerful that it will soon think “similarly to PhD students” in physics, chemistry, and biology tasks. The advance is supposedly so significant that the company says it is starting afresh from the current GPT-4 model, “resetting the counter back to 1” and even forgoing the familiar “GPT” branding that has so far defined its chatbot, if not the entire generative-AI boom.
The research and blog posts that OpenAI published today are filled with genuinely impressive examples of the chatbot “reasoning” through difficult tasks: advanced math and coding problems; decryption of an involved cipher; complex questions about genetics, economics, and quantum physics from experts in those fields. Plenty of charts show that, during internal evaluations, o1 has leapfrogged the company’s most advanced language model, GPT-4o, on problems in coding, math, and various scientific fields.
The key to these advances is a lesson taught to most children: Think before you speak. OpenAI designed o1 to take a longer time “thinking through problems before they respond, much like a person would,” according to today’s announcement. The company has dubbed that internal deliberation a “chain of […]
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