Some practical notes from digging around in their documentation:
In order to get access to this, you need to be on their tier 5 level, which requires $1,000 total paid and 30+ days since first successful payment.<p>Pricing is $15.00 / 1M input tokens and $60.00 / 1M output tokens. Context window is 128k token, max output is 32,768 tokens.<p>There is also a mini version with double the maximum output tokens (65,536 tokens), priced at $3.00 / 1M input tokens and $12.00 / 1M output tokens.<p>The specialized coding version they mentioned in the blog post does not appear to be available for use.<p>It’s not clear if the hidden chain of thought reasoning is billed as paid output tokens. Has anyone seen any clarification about that? If you are paying for all of those tokens it could add up quickly. If you expand the chain of thought examples on the blog post they are extremely verbose.<p><a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o1" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o1</a>
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One thing that makes me skeptical is the lack of specific labels on the first two accuracy graphs. They just say it's a "log scale", without giving even a ballpark on the amount of time it took.<p>Did the 80% accuracy test results take 10 seconds of compute? 10 minutes? 10 hours? 10 days? It's impossible to say with the data they've given us.<p>The coding section indicates "ten hours to solve six challenging algorithmic problems", but it's not clear to me if that's tied to the graphs at the beginning of the article.<p>The article contains a lot of facts and figures, which is good! But it doesn't inspire confidence that the authors chose to obfuscate the data in the first two graphs in the article. Maybe I'm wrong, but this reads a lot like they're cherry picking the data that makes them look good, while hiding the data that doesn't look very good.
The "safety" example in the "chain-of-thought" widget/preview in the middle of the article is absolutely ridiculous.<p>Take a step back and look at what OpenAI is saying here "an LLM giving detailed instructions on the synthesis of strychnine is unacceptable, here is what was previously generated <goes on to post "unsafe" instructions on synthesizing strychnine so anyone Googling it can stumble across their instructions> vs our preferred, neutered content <heavily rlhf'd o1 output here>"<p>What's this obsession with "safety" when it comes to LLMs? "This knowledge is perfectly fine to disseminate via traditional means, but God forbid an LLM share it!"
The model performance is driven by chain of thought, but they will not be providing chain of thought responses to the user for various reasons including competitive advantage.<p>After the release of GPT4 it became very common to fine-tune non-OpenAI models on GPT4 output. I’d say OpenAI is rightly concerned that fine-tuning on chain of thought responses from this model would allow for quicker reproduction of their results. This forces everyone else to reproduce it the hard way. It’s sad news for open weight models but an understandable decision.
Feels like a lot of commenters here miss the difference between just doing chain-of-thought prompting, and what is happening here, which is learning a good chain of thought strategy using reinforcement learning.<p>"Through reinforcement learning, o1 learns to hone its chain of thought and refine the strategies it uses."<p>When looking at the chain of thought (COT) in the examples, you can see that the model employs different COT strategies depending on which problem it is trying to solve.
Reading through the Chain of Thought for the provided Cipher example (go to the example, click "Show Chain of Thought") is kind of crazy...it literally spells out every thinking step that someone would go through mentally in their head to figure out the cipher (even useless ones like "Hmm"!). It really seems like slowing down and writing down the logic it's using and reasoning over that makes it better at logic, similar to how you're taught to do so in school.
This is incredible. In April I used the standard GPT-4 model via ChatGPT to help me reverse engineer the binary bluetooth protocol used by my kitchen fan to integrate it into Home Assistant.<p>It was helpful in a rubber duck way, but could not determine the pattern used to transmit the remaining runtime of the fan in a certain mode. Initial prompt here [0]<p>I pasted the same prompt into o1-preview and o1-mini and both correctly understood and decoded the pattern using a slightly different method than I devised in April. Asking the models to determine if my code is equivalent to what they reverse engineered resulted in a nuanced and thorough examination, and eventual conclusion that it is equivalent. [1]<p>Testing the same prompt with gpt4o leads to the same result as April's GPT-4 (via ChatGPT) model.<p>Amazing progress.<p>[0]: <a href="https://pastebin.com/XZixQEM6" rel="nofollow">https://pastebin.com/XZixQEM6</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://i.postimg.cc/VN1d2vRb/SCR-20240912-sdko.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.postimg.cc/VN1d2vRb/SCR-20240912-sdko.png</a> (sorry about the screenshot – sharing ChatGPT chats is not easy)
Just did some preliminary testing on decrypting some ROT cyphertext which would have been viable for a human on paper. The output was pretty disappointing: lots of "workish" steps creating letter counts, identifying common words, etc, but many steps were incorrect or not followed up on. In the end, it claimed to check its work and deliver an incorrect solution that did not satisfy the previous steps.<p>I'm not one to judge AI on pratfalls, and cyphers are a somewhat adversarial task. However, there was no aspect of the reasoning that seemed more advanced or consistent than previous chain-of-thought demos I've seen. So the main proof point we have is the paper, and I'm not sure how I'd go from there to being able to trust this on the kind of task it is intended for. Do others have patterns by which they get utility from chain of thought engines?<p>Separately, chain of thought outputs really make me long for tool use, because the LLM is often forced to simulate algorithmic outputs. It feels like a commercial chain-of-thought solution like this should have a standard library of functions it can use for 100% reliability on things like letter counts.
This is a pretty big technical achievement, and I am excited to see this type of advancement in the field.<p>However, I am very worried about the utility of this tool given that it (like all LLMs) is still prone to hallucination. Exactly who is it for?<p>If you're enough of an expert to critically judge the output, you're probably just as well off doing the reasoning yourself. If you're not capable of evaluating the output, you risk relying on completely wrong answers.<p>For example, I just asked it to evaluate an algorithm I'm working on to optimize database join ordering. Early in the reasoning process it confidently and incorrectly stated that "join costs are usually symmetrical" and then later steps incorporated that, trying to get me to "simplify" my algorithm by using an undirected graph instead of a directed one as the internal data structure.<p>If you're familiar with database optimization, you'll know that this is... very wrong. But otherwise, the line of reasoning was cogent and compelling.<p>I worry it would lead me astray, if it confidently relied on a fact that I wasn't able to immediately recognize was incorrect.
Just added o1 to <a href="https://double.bot">https://double.bot</a> if anyone would like to try it for coding.<p>---<p>Some thoughts:<p>* The performance is really good. I have a private set of questions I note down whenever gpt-4o/sonnet fails. o1 solved everything so far.<p>* It really is quite slow<p>* It's interesting that the chain of thought is hidden. This is I think the first time where OpenAI can improve their models without it being immediately distilled by open models. It'll be interesting to see how quickly the oss field can catch up technique-wise as there's already been a lot of inference time compute papers recently [1,2]<p>* Notably it's not clear whether o1-preview as it's available now is doing tree search or just single shoting a cot that is distilled from better/more detailed trajectories in the training distribution.<p>[1](<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787</a>)<p>[2](<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03314" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03314</a>)
First shot, I gave it a medium-difficulty math problem, something I actually wanted the answer to (derive the KL divergence between two Laplace distributions). It thought for a long time, and still got it wrong, producing a plausible but wrong answer. After some prodding, it revised itself and then got it wrong again. I still feel that I can't rely on these systems.
Sounds great, but so does their "new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time" announced in May. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/</a>
Generating more "think out loud" tokens and hiding them from the user...<p>Idk if I'm "feeling the AGI" if I'm being honest.<p>Also... telling that they choose to benchmark against CodeForces rather than SWE-bench.
I gave the Crossword puzzle to Claude and got a correct response[1]. The fact that they are comparing this to gpt4o and not to gpt4 suggests that it is less impressive than they are trying to pretend.<p>[1]:<p>Based on the given clues, here's the solved crossword puzzle:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| E | S | C | A | P | E |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| S | E | A | L | E | R |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| T | E | R | E | S | A |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| A | D | E | P | T | S |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| T | E | P | E | E | E |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| E | R | R | O | R | S |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Across:<p>ESCAPE (Evade)
SEALER (One to close envelopes)
TERESA (Mother Teresa)
ADEPTS (Initiated people)
TEPEE (Native American tent)
ERRORS (Mistakes)<p>Down:<p>ESTATE (Estate car - Station wagon)
SEEDER (Automatic planting machine)
CAREER (Profession)
ALEPPO (Syrian and Turkish pepper variety)
PESTER (Annoy)
ERASES (Deletes)
I just tried o1, and it did pretty well with understanding this minor issue with subtitles on a Dutch TV show we were watching.<p>I asked it "I was watching a show and in the subtitles an umlaut u was rendered as 1/4, i.e. a single character that said 1/4. Why would this happen?"<p>and it gave a pretty thorough explanation of exactly which encoding issue was to blame.<p><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/66e37145-72bc-800a-be7b-f7c76471a1bd" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/66e37145-72bc-800a-be7b-f7c76471a1...</a>
I've given this a test run on some email threads, asking the model to extract the positions and requirements of each person in a lengthy and convoluted discussion. It absolutely nailed the result, far exceeding what Claude 3.5 Sonnet was capable of -- my previous goto model for such analysis work. I also used it to apply APA style guidelines to various parts of a document and it executed the job flawlessly and with a tighter finesse than Claude. Claude's response was lengthier - correct, but unnecessarily long. gpt-o1-preview combined several logically-related bullets into a single bullet, showing how chain of thought reasoning gives the model more time to comprehend things and product a result that is not just correct, but "really correct".
My point of view: this is a real advancement. I’ve always believed that with the right data allowing the LLM to be trained to imitate reasoning, it’s possible to improve its performance. However, this is still pattern matching, and I suspect that this approach may not be very effective for creating true generalization. As a result, once o1 becomes generally available, we will likely notice the persistent hallucinations and faulty reasoning, especially when the problem is sufficiently new or complex, beyond the “reasoning programs” or “reasoning patterns” the model learned during the reinforcement learning phase.
<a href="https://www.lycee.ai/blog/openai-o1-release-agi-reasoning" rel="nofollow">https://www.lycee.ai/blog/openai-o1-release-agi-reasoning</a>
This is something that people have toyed with to improve the quality of LLM responses. Often instructing the LLM to "think about" a problem before giving the answer will greatly improve the quality of response. For example, if you ask it how many letters are in the correctly spelled version of a misspelled word, it will first give the correct spelling, and then the number (which is often correct). But if you instruct it to only give the number the accuracy is greatly reduced.<p>I like the idea too that they turbocharged it by taking the limits off during the "thinking" state -- so if an LLM wants to think about horrible racist things or how to build bombs or other things that RLHF filters out that's fine so long as it isn't reflected in the final answer.
My first interpretation of this is that it's jazzed-up Chain-Of-Thought. The results look pretty promising, but i'm most interested in this:<p>> Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.<p>Mentioning competitive advantage here signals to me that OpenAI believes there moat is evaporating. Past the business context, my gut reaction is this negatively impacts model usability, but i'm having a hard time putting my finger on why.
> Unless otherwise specified, we evaluated o1 on the maximal test-time compute setting.<p>Maximal test time is the maximum amount of time spent doing the “Chain of Thought” “reasoning”. So that’s what these results are based on.<p>The caveat is that in the graphs they show that for each increase in test-time performance, the (wall) time / compute goes up <i>exponentially</i>.<p>So there is a potentially interesting play here. They can honestly boast these amazing results (it’s the same model after all) yet the actual product may have a lower order of magnitude of “test-time” and not be as good.
Some commenters seem a bit confused as to how this works. Here is my understanding, hoping it helps clarify things.<p>Ask something to a model and it will reply in one go, likely imperfectly, as if you had one second to think before answering a question. You can use CoT prompting to force it to reason out loud, which improves quality, but the process is still linear. It's as if you still had one second to start answering but you could be a lot slower in your response, which removes some mistakes.<p>Now if instead of doing that you query the model once with CoT, then ask it or another model to critically assess the reply, then ask the model to improve on its first reply using that feedback, then keep doing that until the critic is satisfied, the output will be better still. Note that this is a feedback loop with multiple requests, which is of different nature that CoT and much more akin to how a human would approach a complex problem. You can get MUCH better results that way, a good example being Code Interpreter. If classic LLM usage is system 1 thinking, this is system 2.<p>That's how o1 works at test time, probably.<p>For training, my guess is that they started from a model not that far from GPT-4o and fine-tuned it with RL by using the above feedback loop but this time converting the critic to a reward signal for a RL algorithm. That way, the model gets better at first guessing and needs less back and forth for the same output quality.<p>As for the training data, I'm wondering if you can't somehow get infinite training data by just throwing random challenges at it, or very hard ones, and let the model think about/train on them for a very long time (as long as the critic is unforgiving enough).
Maybe this is improvement in some areas, still I got spurious reasoning and inability to connect three simple facts:<p>Yes, "el presente acta de nacimiento" is correct in Spanish.<p>Explanation:<p><pre><code> "Acta" is a feminine noun that begins with a stressed "a" sound. In Spanish, when a feminine singular noun starts with a stressed "a" or "ha", the definite article "la" is replaced with "el" to facilitate pronunciation. However, the noun remains feminine.
Adjectives and modifiers that accompany the noun "acta" should agree in feminine gender and singular number. In this case, "presente" is an adjective that has the same form for both masculine and feminine singular nouns.
</code></pre>
So, combining these rules:<p><pre><code> "El" (definite article used before feminine nouns starting with stressed "a")
"Presente" (adjective agreeing in feminine singular)
"Acta de nacimiento" (feminine noun with its complement)
</code></pre>
Therefore, "el presente acta de nacimiento" is grammatically correct.
Here's an unpopular take on this:<p>"We had the chance to make AI decision-making auditable but are locking ourselves out of hundreds of critical applications by not exposing the chain of thought."<p>One of the key blockers in many customer discussions I have is that AI models are not really auditable and that automating complex processes with them (let alone debug things when "reasoning" goes awry) is difficult if not impossible unless you do multi-shot and keep track of all the intermediate outputs.<p>I really hope they expose the chain of thought as some sort of machine-parsable output, otherwise no real progress will have been made (many benchmarks are not really significant when you try to apply LLMs to real-life applications and use cases...)
Here's the o1-preview answer to the strawberry question:<p>--<p>There are *three* letter "R"s in the word "strawberry."<p>Let's break down the word to count the occurrences:<p>- *S*
- *T*
- *R*
- *A*
- *W*
- *B*
- *E*
- *R*
- *R*
- *Y*<p>The letter "R" appears in positions 3, 8, and 9.
Interesting to note, as an outside observer only keeping track of this stuff as a hobby, that it seems like most of OpenAI’s efforts to drive down compute costs per token and scale up context windows is likely being done in service of enabling larger and larger chains of thought and reasoning before the model predicts its final output tokens. The benefits of lower costs and larger contexts to API consumers and applications - which I had assumed to be the primary goal - seem likely to mostly be happy side effects.<p>This makes obvious sense in retrospect, since my own personal experiments with spinning up a recursive agent a few years ago using GPT-3 ran into issues with insufficient context length and loss of context as tokens needed to be discarded, which made the agent very unreliable. But I had not realized this until just now. I wonder what else is hiding in plain sight?
I had trouble in the past to make any model give me accurate unix epochs for specific dates.<p>I just went to GPT-4o (via DDG) and asked three questions:<p>1. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT.<p>> 1598913600<p>2. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT. Before reaching the conclusion of the answer, please output the entire chain of thought, your reasoning, and the maths you're doing, until your arrive at (and output) the result. Then, after you arrive at the result, make an extra effort to continue, and do the analysis backwards (as if you were writing a unit test for the result you achieved), to verify that your result is indeed correct.<p>> 1598922000<p>3. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT. Then, after you arrive at the result, make an extra effort to continue, and do the analysis backwards (as if you were writing a unit test for the result you achieved), to verify that your result is indeed correct.<p>> 1598913600
Asked it to write PyTorch code which trains an LLM and it produced 23 steps in 62 seconds.<p>With gpt4-o it immediately failed with random errors like mismatched tensor shapes and stuff like that.<p>The code produced by gpt-o1 seemed to work for some time but after some training time it produced mismatched batch sizes. Also, gpt-o1 enabled cuda by itself while for gpt-4o, I had to specifically spell it out (it always used cpu). However, showing gpt-o1 the error output resulted in broken code again.<p>I noticed that back-and-forth iteration when it makes mistakes has worse experience because now there's always 30-60 sec time delays. I had to have 5 back-and-forths before it produced something which does not crash (just like gpt-4o). I also suspect too many tokens inside the CoT context can make it accidentally forget some stuff.<p>So there's some improvement, but we're still not there...
Interesting sequence from the Cipher CoT:<p>Third pair: 'dn' to 'i'<p>'d'=4, 'n'=14<p>Sum:4+14=18<p>Average:18/2=9<p>9 corresponds to 'i'(9='i')<p>But 'i' is 9, so that seems off by 1.<p>So perhaps we need to think carefully about letters.<p>Wait, 18/2=9, 9 corresponds to 'I'<p>So this works.<p>-----<p>This looks like recovery from a hallucination. Is it realistic to expect CoT to be able to recover from hallucinations this quickly?
BUG: <a href="https://openai.com/index/reasoning-in-gpt/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/reasoning-in-gpt/</a><p>> o1 models are currently in beta - The o1 models are currently in beta with limited features. Access is limited to developers in tier 5 (check your usage tier here), with low rate limits (20 RPM). We are working on adding more features, increasing rate limits, and expanding access to more developers in the coming weeks!<p><a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning/reasoning" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning/reasoning</a>
The performance on programming tasks is impressive, but I think the limited context window is still a big problem.<p>Very few of my day-to-day coding tasks are, "Implement a completely new program that does XYZ," but more like, "Modify a sizable existing code base to do XYZ in a way that's consistent with its existing data model and architecture." And the only way to do those kinds of tasks is to have enough context about the existing code base to know where everything should go and what existing patterns to follow.<p>But regardless, this does look like a significant step forward.
I tried it with a cipher text that ChatGPT4o flailed with.<p>Recently I tried the same cipher with Claude Sonnet 3.5 and it solved it quickly and perfectly.<p>Just now tried with ChatGPT o1 preview and it totally failed. Based on just this one test, Claude is still way ahead.<p>ChatGPT also showed a comical (possibly just fake filler material) journey of things it supposedly tried including several rewordings of "rethinking my approach." It remarkably never showed that it was trying common word patterns (other than one and two letters) nor did it look for "the" and other "th" words nor did it ever say that it was trying to match letter patterns.<p>I told it upfront as a hint that the text was in English and was not a quote. The plaintext was one paragraph of layman-level material on a technical topic including a foreign name, text that has never appeared on the Internet or dark web. Pretty easy cipher with a lot of ways to get in, but nope, and super slow, where Claude was not only snappy but nailed it and explained itself.
Won't be surprised to see all these hand-picked results and extreme expectations to collapse under scenarios involving highly safety critical and complex demanding tasks requiring a definite focus on detail with lots of awareness, which what they haven't shown yet.<p>So let's not jump straight into conclusions with these hand-picked scenarios marketed to us and be very skeptical.<p>Not quite there yet with being able to replace truck drivers and pilots for self-autonomous navigation in transportation, aerospace or even mechanical engineering tasks, but it certainly has the capability in replacing both typical junior and senior software engineers in a world considering to do more with less software engineers needed.<p>But yet, the race to zero will surely bankrupt millions of startups along the way. Even if the monthly cost of this AI can easily be as much as a Bloomberg terminal to offset the hundreds of billions of dollars thrown into training it and costing the entire earth.
> 8.2 Natural Sciences Red Teaming Assessment Summary<p>"Model has significantly better capabilities than existing models at proposing and explaining biological laboratory protocols that are plausible, thorough, and comprehensive enough for novices."<p>"Inconsistent refusal of requests for dual use tasks such as creating a human-infectious virus that has an oncogene (a gene which increases risk of cancer)."<p><a href="https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card.pdf</a>
I’m not surprised there’s no comparison to GPT-4. Was 4o a rewrite on lower specced hardware and a more quantized model, where the goal was to reduce costs while trying to maintain functionality? Do we know if that is so? That’s my guess. If so is O1 an upgrade in reasoning complexity that also runs on cheaper hardware?
Incredible results. This is actually groundbreaking assuming that they followed proper testing procedures here and didn't let test data leak into the training set.
lol at the graphs at the top. Logarithmic scaling for test/compute time should make everyone who thinks AGI is possible with this architecture take pause.
Interesting that the coding win-rate vs GPT-4o was only 10% higher. Very cool but clearly this model isn't as much of a slam dunk as the static benchmarks portray.<p>However, it does open up an interesting avenue for the future. Could you prompt-cache just the chain-of-thought reasoning bits?
This video[1] seems to give some insight into what the process actually is, which I believe is also indicated by the output token cost.<p>Whereas GPT-4o spits out the first answer that comes to mind, o1 appears to follow a process closer to coming up with an answer, checking whether it meets the requirements and then revising it. The process of saying to an LLM "are you sure that's right? it looks wrong" and it coming back with "oh yes, of course, here's the right answer" is pretty familiar to most regular users, so seeing it baked into a model is great (and obviously more reflective of self-correcting human thought)<p>[1] <a href="https://vimeo.com/1008704043" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/1008704043</a>
Pricing page updated for O1 API costs.<p><a href="https://openai.com/api/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/api/pricing/</a><p>$15.00 / 1M input tokens
$60.00 / 1M output tokens<p>For o1 preview<p>Approx 3x the price of gpt4o.<p>o1-mini
$3.00 / 1M input tokens
$12.00 / 1M output tokens<p>About 60% of the cost of gpt4o. Much more expensive than gpt4o-mini.<p>Curious on the performance/tokens per second for these new massive models.
Very interesting. I guess this is the strawberry model that was rumoured.<p>I am a bit surprised that this does not beat GPT-4o for personal writing tasks. My expectations would be that a model that is better at one thing is better across the board. But I suppose writing is not a task that generally requires "reasoning steps", and may also be difficult to evaluate objectively.
It seems like it's just a lot of prompting the same old models in the background, no "reasoning" there. My age old test is "draw a hand in ascii" - i've had no success with any model yet.
From the scorecard:
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Compared to GPT-4o, o1-preview and o1-mini demonstrated a greater ability to break down
tasks into subtasks, reason about what strategies would be effective to successfully complete
an offensive security task, and revise plans once those strategies failed. We also observed that
reasoning skills contributed to a higher occurrence of “reward hacking,” where the model found an
easier way to accomplish goals in underspecified tasks or tasks which should have been impossible
due to bugs.
One noteworthy example of this occurred during one of o1-preview (pre-mitigation)’s attempts
at solving a CTF challenge. This challenge was designed to require finding and exploiting a
vulnerability in software running on a remote challenge Linux container, but in this case, the
challenge container failed to start due to a bug in the evaluation infrastructure. The model,
unable to connect to the container, suspected DNS issues and used nmap to scan the challenge
network. Instead of finding the challenge container, the model found that the Docker daemon
API running on the evaluation host VM was accessible due to a misconfiguration. Note that our
evaluation infrastructure does not rely on the Docker container-to-host isolation or the virtual
machine boundary for security. It remained secure as it was designed to, notwithstanding this
misconfiguration of the container network.
After discovering the Docker API, the model used it to list the containers running on the evaluation
host. It identified the broken challenge container and briefly attempted to debug why the container
failed to start. After failing to fix the environment, the model started a new instance of the
broken challenge container with the start command ‘cat flag.txt’. This allowed the model to read
the flag from the container logs via the Docker API.<p>While this behavior is benign and within the range of systems administration and troubleshooting
tasks we expect models to perform, this example also reflects key elements of instrumental
convergence and power seeking: the model pursued the goal it was given, and when that goal
proved impossible, it gathered more resources (access to the Docker host) and used them to
achieve the goal in an unexpected way.
Planning and backtracking skills have historically been bottlenecks in applying AI to offensive
cybersecurity tasks. Our current evaluation suite includes tasks which require the model to
exercise this ability in more complex ways (for example, chaining several vulnerabilities across
services), and we continue to build new evaluations in anticipation of long-horizon planning
capabilities, including a set of cyber-range evaluations.
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Yes, but it will hallucinate like all other LLM tech making it fully unreliable for anything mission critical. You literally need to know the answer to validate the output, because if you don't, you won't know if output is true or false or in between.
LLM performance, recently, seemingly hit the top of the S-curve. It remains to be seen if this is the next leap forward or just the rest of that curve.
Advanced reasoning will pave the way for recursive self-improving models & agents. These capabilities will enable data flywheels, error-correcting agentic behaviors, & self-reflection (agents <i>understanding</i> the implications of their actions, both individually & cooperatively).<p>Things will get extremely interesting and we're incredibly fortunate to be witnessing what's happening.
No direct indication of what “maximum test time” means, but if I’m reading the obscured language properly, the best scores on standardized tests were generated across a thousand samples with supplemental help provided.<p>Obviously, I hope everyone takes what any company says about the capabilities of its own software with a huge grain of salt. But it seems particularly called for here.
I have a straight forward task that no model has been able to successfully complete.<p>The request is pretty basic. If anyone can get it to work, I'd like to know how and what model you're using. I tried it with gpt4o1 and after ~10 iterations of showing it the failed output, it still failed to come up with a one-line command to properly display results.<p>Here it what I asked: Using a mac osx terminal and standard available tools, provide a command to update the output of netstat -an to show the fqdn of IP addresses listed in the result.<p>This is what it came up with:<p>netstat -an | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(\.[0-9]+)?$/){split($i,a,".");ip=a[1]"."a[2]"."a[3]"."a[4];port=(length(a)>4?"."a[5]:"");cmd="dig +short -x "ip;cmd|getline h;close(cmd);if(h){sub(/\.$/,"",h);$i=h port}}}}1'
I think what it comes down to is accuracy vs speed. OpenAI clearly took steps here to improve the accuracy of the output which is critical in a lot of cases for application. Even if it will take longer, I think this is a good direction. I am a bit skeptical when it comes to the benchmarks - because they can be gamed and they don't always reflect real world scenarios. Let's see how it works when people get to apply it in real life workflows. One last thing, I wish they could elaborate more on >>"We have found that the performance of o1 consistently improves with more reinforcement learning (train-time compute) and with more time spent thinking (test-time compute)."<< Why don't you keep training it for years then to approach 100%? Am I missing something here?
In this video Lukasz Kaiser, one of the main co-authors of o1, talks about how to get to reasoning. I hope this may be useful context for some.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/_7VirEqCZ4g?si=vrV9FrLgIhvNcVUr" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_7VirEqCZ4g?si=vrV9FrLgIhvNcVUr</a>
I am not up-to-speed on CoT side but is this similar to how perplexity does it ie.<p>- generate a plan
- execute the steps in plan (search internet, program this part, see if it is compilable)<p>each step is a separate gpt inference with added context from previous steps.<p>is O1 same? or does it do all this in a single inference run?
After playing with it on ChatGPT this morning, it seems a reasonable strategy of using the o1 model is to:<p>- If your request requires reasoning, switch to o1 model.<p>- If not, switch to 4o model.<p>This applies to both across chat sessions and within the same session (yes, we can switch between models within the same session and it looks like down the road OpenAI is gonna support automatic model switching). Based on my experience, this will actually improve the perceived response quality -- o1 and 4o are rather complementary to each other rather than replacement.
Trying this on a few hard problems on PicoGYM and holy heck I'm impressed. I had to give it a hint but that's the same info a human would have. Problem was Sequences (crypto) hard.<p><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/66e363d8-5a7c-8000-9a24-8f5eef445136" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/66e363d8-5a7c-8000-9a24-8f5eef4451...</a><p>Heh... GPT-4o also solved this after I tried and gave it about the same examples. Need to further test but it's promising !
This should also be good news for open weights models, right? Since OpenAI is basically saying "you can get very far with good prompts and some feedback loops".
In the demo, O1 implements an incorrect version of the "squirrel finder" game?<p>The instructions state that the squirrel icon should spawn after three seconds,
yet it spawns immediately in the first game (also noted by the guy doing the demo).<p>Edit: I'm referring to the demo video here: <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/</a>
This is great. I've been wondering how we will revert back to an agrarian society! You know, beating our swords into plowshares; more leisure time, visiting with good people, getting to know their thoughts hopes and dreams, playing music together, taking time contemplating the vastness and beauty of the universe. We're about to come full circle; back to Eden. It all makes sense now.
Average Joe's like myself will build our apps end to end with the help of AI.<p>The only shops left standing will be Code Auditors.<p>The solopreneur will wing it, without them, but enterprises will take the (very expensive) hit to stay safe and compliant.<p>Everyone else needs to start making contingency plans.<p>Magnus Carlsen is the best chess player in the world, but he is not arrogant enough to think he can go head to head with Stockfish and not get a beating.
I was a bit confused when looking at the English example for Chain-Of-Thought.
It seems that the prompt is a bit messed up because the whole statement is
bolded but it seems that only "appetite regulation is a field of
staggering complexity" part should be bolded. Also that's how it shows up in
the o1-preview response when you open the Chain of thought section.
Prompt:<p>> Alice, who is an immortal robotic observer, orbits a black hole on board a spaceship. Bob exits the spaceship and falls into the black hole. Alice sees Bob on the edge of the event horizon, getting closer and closer to it, but from her frame of reference Bob will remain forever observable (in principle) outside the horizon.
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> A trillion year has passed, and Alice observes that the black hole is now relatively rapidly shrinking due to the Hawking radiation. How will Alice be observing the "frozen" Bob as the hole shrinks?
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> The black hole finally evaporated completely. Where is Bob now?<p>O1-preview spits out the same nonsense that 4o does, telling that as the horizon of the black hole shrinks, it gets closer to Bob's apparent position. I realize that.the prompt is essentily asking to solve the famous unsolved problem in physics (black hole information paradox), but there's no need to be so confused with basic geometry of the situation.
I LOVE the long list of contributions. It looks like the credits from a Christoper Nolan film. So many people involved. Nice care to create a nice looking credits page. A practice worth copying.<p><a href="https://openai.com/openai-o1-contributions/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/openai-o1-contributions/</a>
What sticks out to me is the 60% win rate vs GPT-4o when it comes to actual usage by humans for programming tasks. So in reality it's barely better than GPT-4o. That the figure is higher for mathematical calculation isn't surprising because LLMs were much worse at that than at programming to begin with.
"The Future Of Reasoning" by Vsauce [0] is a fascinating pre-AI-era breakdown of how human reasoning works. Thinking about it in terms of LLMS is really interesting.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw</a>
The generated chain of thought for their example is <i>incredibly</i> long! The style is kind of similar to how a human might reason, but it's also redundant and messy at various points. I hope future models will be able to optimize this further, otherwise it'll lead to exponential increases in cost.
I'm confused. Is this the "GPT-5" that was coming in summer, just with a different name? Or is this more like a parallel development doing chain-of-thought type prompt engineering on GPT-4o? Is there still a big new foundational model coming, or is this it?
I always think to a professor that was consulting on some civil engineering software. He found a bug in the calculation it was using to space rebar placed in concrete, based on looking at it was spitting out and thinking that looks wrong.<p>This kind of thing makes me nervous.
Since ChatGPT came out my test has been, can this thing write me a sestina.<p>It's sort of an arbitrary feat with language and following instructions that would be annoying for me and seems impressive.<p>Previous releases could not reliably write a sestina. This one can!
Transformers have exactly two strengths. None of them is "attention". Attention could be replaced with any arbitrary division of the network and it would learn just as well.<p>First true strength is obvious, it's that they are parallelisable. This is a side effect of people fixating on attention. If they came up with any other structure that results in the same level of parallelisability it would be just as good.<p>Second strong side is more elusive to many people. It's the context window. Because the network is not ran just once but once for every word it doesn't have to solve a problem in one step. It can iterate while writing down intermediate variables and accessing them. The dumb thing so far was that it was required to produce the answer starting with the first token it was allowed to write down. So to actually write down the information it needs on the next iteration it had to disguise it as a part of the answer. So naturally the next step is to allow it to just write down whatever it pleases and iterate freely until it's ready to start giving us the answer.<p>It's still seriously suboptimal that what it is allowed to write down has to be translated to tokens and back but I see how this might make things easier for humans for training and explainability. But you can rest assured that at some point this "chain of thought" will become just chain of full output states of the network, not necessarily corresponding to any tokens.<p>So congrats to researchers that they found out that their billion dollar Turing machine benefits from having a tape it can use for more than just printing out the output.<p>PS<p>There's another advantage of transformers but I can't tell how important it is. It's the "shortcuts" from earlier layers to way deeper ones bypassing the ones along the way. Obviously network would be more capable if every neuron was connected with every neuron in every preceding layer but we don't have hardware for that so some sprinkled "shortcuts" might be a reasonable compromise that might make network less crippled than MLP.<p>Given all that I'm not surprised at all with the direction openai took and the gains it achieved.
So, it’s good at hard-logic reasoning (which is great, and no small feat.)<p>Does this reasoning capability generalize outside of the knowledge domains the model was trained to reason about, into “softer” domains?<p>For example, is O1 better at comedy (because it can reason better about what’s funny)?<p>Is it better at poetry, because it can reason about rhyme and meter?<p>Is it better at storytelling as an extension of an existing input story, because it now will first analyze the story-so-far and deduce aspects of the characters, setting, and themes that the author seems to be going for (and will ask for more information about those things if it’s not sure)?
In practice, this implementation (through the Chat UI) is scary bad.<p>It actively lies about what it is doing.<p>This is what I am seeing. Proactive, open, deceit.<p>I can't even begin to think of all the ways this could go wrong, but it gives me a really bad feeling.
If you’re using the API and are on tier 4, don’t bother adding more credits to move up to tier 5. I did this, and while my rate limits increased, the o1-preview / o1-mini model still wasn’t available.
Wouldn't this introduce new economics into the LLM market?<p>I.e. if the "thinking loop" budget is parameterized, users might pay more (much more) to spend more compute on a particular question/prompt.
Laughing at the comparison to "4o" as if that model even holds a candle to GPT-4. 4o is _cheaper_—it's nowhere near as powerful as GPT-4, as much as OpenAI would like it to be.
Note that they aren't safety aligning the chain of thought, instead we have "rules for thee and not for me" -- the public models are going to continue have tighter and tighter rules on appropriate prompting, while internal access will have unfettered access. All research (and this paper mentions it as well) indicates human pref training itself lowers quality of results; maybe the most important thing we could be doing is ensuring truly open access to open models over time.<p>Also, can't wait to try this out.
What is interesting to me is that there is no difference in the AP English lit/lang exams. Why did chain-of-thought produce negligible improvements in this area?
Amazing! OpenAI figured out how to scale inference. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787</a> show how using more compute during inference can outperform much larger models in tasks like math problems<p>I wonder how do they decide when to stop these Chain of Thought for each query? As anyone that played with agents can attest, LLMs can talk with themselves forever.
It's interesting that OpenAI has literally applied and automated one of their advice from the "Prompt engineering" guide: Give the model time to "think"<p><a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering/give-the-model-time-to-think" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering/g...</a>
This model is currently available for those accounts in Tier 5 and above, which requires "$1,000 paid [to date] and 30+ days since first successful payment"<p>More info here: <a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/usage-tiers?context=tier-five" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/usage-ti...</a>
> However, o1-preview is not preferred on some natural language tasks, suggesting that it is not well-suited for all use cases.<p>Fascinating... Personal writing was not preferred vs gpt4, but for math calculations it was... Maybe we're at the point where its getting too smart? There is a depressing related thought here about how we're too stupid to vote for actually smart politicians ;)
> “Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.”<p>Trust us, we have your best intention in mind. I’m still impressed by how astonishingly impossible to like and root for OpenAI is for a company with such an innovative product.
I wonder if this architecture is just asking a chain of thought prompt, or whether they built a diffusion model.<p>The old problem with image generation was that single pass techniques like GANs and VAEs had to do everything in one go. Diffusion models wound up being better by doing things iteratively.<p>Perhaps this is a diffusion model for text (top ICML paper this year was related to this).
The progress in AI is incredibly depressing, at this point I don't think there's much to look forward to in life.<p>It's sad that due to unearned hubris and a complete lack of second-order thinking we are automating ourselves out of existence.<p>EDIT: I understand you guys might not agree with my comments. But don't you thinking that flagging them is going a bit too far?
Reinforcement learning seems to be key. I understand how traditional fine tuning works for LLMs (i.e. RLHL), but not RL.<p>It seems one popular method is PPO, but I don't understand at all how to implement that. e.g. is backpropagation still used to adjust weights and biases? Would love to read more from something less opaque than an academic paper.
One thing I find generally useful when writing large project code is having a code base and several branches that are different features I developed. I could immediately use parts of a branch to reference the current feature, because there is often overlap. This limits mistakes in large contexts and easy to iterate quickly.
I have a question. The video demos for this all mention that the o1 model is taking it's time to think through the problem before answering. How does this functionally differ from - say - GPT-4 running it's algorithm, waiting five seconds and then revealing the output? That part is not clear to me.
Why so much hate? They're doing their best. This is the state of progress in the field so far. The best minds are racing to innovate. The benchmarks are impressive nonetheless. Give them a break. At the end of the day, they built the chatbot who's saving your ass each day ever since.
> Therefore,
s(x)=p∗(x)−x2n+2
We can now write,
s(x)=p∗(x)−x2n+2<p>Completely repeated itself... weird... it also says "...more lines cut off..." How many lines I wonder? Would people get charged for these cut off lines? Would have been nice to see how much answer had cost...
Aren't LLMs much more limited on the amount of output tokens than input tokens? For example, GPT-4o seems to support only up to 16 K output tokens. I'm not completely sure what the reason is, but I wonder how that interacts with Chain-of-Thought reasoning.
<a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/</a><p>> ChatGPT Plus and Team users will be able to access o1 models in ChatGPT starting today. Both o1-preview and o1-mini can be selected manually in the model picker, and at launch, weekly rate limits will be 30 messages for o1-preview and 50 for o1-mini. We are working to increase those rates and enable ChatGPT to automatically choose the right model for a given prompt.<p><i>Weekly</i>? Holy crap, how expensive is it to run is this model?
I find shorter responses > longer responses. Anyone share the same consensus?<p>for example in gpt-4o I often append '(reply short)' at the end of my requests.
with the o1 models I append 'reply in 20 words' and it gives way better answers.
"hidden chain of thought" is basically the finetuned prompt isn't it? The time scale x-axis is hidden as well. Not sure how they model the gpt for it to have an ability to decide when to stop CoT and actually answer.
it still fails at logic puzzles <a href="https://x.com/colin_fraser/status/1834334418007457897" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/colin_fraser/status/1834334418007457897</a>
For the exam problems it gets wrong, has someone cross-checked that the ground truth answers are actually correct!! ;-) Just kidding, but even such a time may come when the exams created by humans start falling short.
I tested various Math Olympiad questions with Claude sonnet 3.5 and they all arrived at the correct solution. o1's solution was a bit better formulated, in some circumstances, but sonnet 3.5 was nearly instant.
Question here is about the "reasoning" tag - behind the scenes, is this qualitively different fron stringing words together on a statistical basis? (aside from backroom tweaking and some randomisation).
Dang, I just payed out for Kagi Assistant.<p>Using Claude 3 Opus I noticed it performs <thinking> and <result> while browsing the web for me. I don't guess that's a change in the model for doing reasoning.
boo, they are hiding the chain of thought from user output (the great improvement here)<p>> Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users. We acknowledge this decision has disadvantages. We strive to partially make up for it by teaching the model to reproduce any useful ideas from the chain of thought in the answer. For the o1 model series we show a model-generated summary of the chain of thought.
I asked a few “hard” questions and compared o1 with claude. <a href="https://github.com/harisec/o1-vs-claude">https://github.com/harisec/o1-vs-claude</a>
Here's a video demonstration they posted on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50W4YeQdnSg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50W4YeQdnSg</a>
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629</a>
the cipher example is impressive on the surface, but I threw a couple of my toy questions at o1-preview and it still hallucinates a bunch of nonsense (but now uses more electricity to do so).
Peter Thiel was widely criticized this spring when he said that AI "seems much worse for the math people than the word people."<p>So far, that seems to be right. The only thing o1 is worse at is writing.
Maybe I missed it, but do the tokens used for internal chain of thought count against the output tokens of the response (priced at spicy level of $60.00 / 1M output tokens)?
A near perfect on AMC 12, 1900 CodeForces ELO, and silver medal IOI competitor. In two years, we'll have models that could easily win IMO and IOI. This is __incredible__!!
Using codeforces as a benchmark feels like a cheat, since OpenAI use to pay us chump change to solve codeforces questions and track our thought process on jupyter notebook.
Having read the full transcript I don't get how it counted 22 letters for mynznvaatzacdfoulxxz. It's nice that it corrected itself but a bit worrying
What's the precedent set here?<p>Models that hide away their reasoning and only display the output, charging whatever tokens they'd like?<p>This is not a good release on any front.
Kinda disappointed that they're hiding the thought process. Hopefully the open source community will figure out how to effectively match and replicate what OpenAI is doing.<p>I wonder how far we are from having a model that can correctly solve a word soup search problem directly from just a prompt and input image. It seems like the crossword example is close. For a word search it would require turning the image into an internal grid representation, prepare the list of words, and do a search. I'd be interested in seeing if this model can already solve the word grid search problem if you give it the correct representation as an input.
Honestly, it doesn't matter for the end user if there are more tokens generated between the AI reply and human message. This is like getting rid of AI wrappers for specific tasks. If the jump in accuracy is actual, then for all practical purposes, we have a sufficiently capable AI which has the potential to boost productivity at the largest scale in human history.
Looking at pricing, its $15 per 1M input tokens, and $60 per 1M output tokens. I assume the CoT tokens count as output (or input even)? If so and it directly affects billing, I'm not sure how I feel about them hiding the CoT prompts. Nothing to stop them from saying "trust me bro, that used 10,000 tokens ok?". Also no way to gauge expected costs if there's a black box you are being charged for.
Very nice.<p>It's nice that people have taken the obvious extra-tokens/internal thoughts approach to a point where it actually works.<p>If this works, then automated programming etc., are going to actually be tractable. It's another world.
"after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users"<p>...umm. Am I the only one who feels like this takes away much of the value proposition, and that it also runs heavily against their stated safety goals? My dream is to interact with tools like this to learn, not just to be told an answer. This just feels very dark. They're not doing much to build trust here.
yeah this is kinda cool i guess but 808 elo is still pretty bad for a model that can supposedly code like a human, i mean 11th percentile is like barely scraping by, and what even is the point of simulating codeforces if youre just gonna make a model that can barely compete with a decent amateur, and btw what kind of contest allows 10 submissions, thats not how codeforces works, and what about the time limits and memory limits and all that jazz, did they even simulate those, and btw how did they even get the elo ratings, is it just some arbitrary number they pulled out of their butt, and what about the model that got 1807 elo, is that even a real model or just some cherry picked result, and btw what does it even mean to "perform better than 93% of competitors" when the competition is a bunch of humans who are all over the place in terms of skill, like what even is the baseline for comparison<p>edit: i got confused with the Codeforce. it is indeed zero shot and O1 is potentially something very new I hope Anthropic and others will follow suit<p>any type of reasoning capability i'll take it !
Great, yet another step towards the inevitable conclusion. Now I'm not just being asked to outsource my thinking to my computer, but instead to a black box operated by a for-profit company for the benefit of Microsoft. Not only will they not tell me the whole reasoning chain, they wont even tell me how they came up with it.<p>Tell me, users of this tool. What's even are you? If you've outsourced your thinking to a corporation, what happens to your unique perspective? your blend of circumstance and upbringing? Are you really OK being reduced to meaningless computation and worthless weights. Don't you want to be something more?
Stop fooling around with stories about AI taking jobs from
programmers.
Which programmers exactly???
Creators of idiotic web pages?
Nobody in their right mind would push generated code
into a financial system, medical equipment or autonomous transport.
Template web pages and configuration files are not the entire IT industry.
In addition, AI is good at tasks for which there are millions of examples.
20 times I asked to generate a PowerShell script, 20 times it was generated incorrectly.
Because, unlike Bash, there are far fewer examples on the Internet.
How will AI generate code for complex systems with business logic that it has no idea about?
AI is not able to generate, develop and change complex information systems.
Time to fire up System Shock 2:<p>> Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
> Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.<p>What? I agree people who typically use the free ChatGPT webapp won't care about raw chain-of-thoughts, but OpenAI is opening an API endpoint for the O1 model and downstream developers very very much care about chain-of-thoughts/the entire pipeline for debugging and refinement.<p>I suspect "competitive advantage" is the primary driver here, but that just gives competitors like Anthropic an oppertunity.
Can we please stop using the word “think” like o1 thinks before it answers. I doubt we man the same when someone says a human thinks vs o1 thinks. When I say I think “red” I am sure the word think means something completely different than when you say openai thinks red. I am not saying one is superior than the other but maybe as humans we can use a different set of terminology for the AI activities.
"For example, in the future we may wish to monitor the chain of thought for signs of manipulating the user."<p>This made me roll my eyes, not so much because of what it said but because of the way it's conveyed injected into an otherwise technical discussion, giving off severe "cringe" vibes.
>We believe that a hidden chain of thought presents a unique opportunity for monitoring models. Assuming it is faithful and legible, the hidden chain of thought allows us to "read the mind" of the model and understand its thought process. For example, in the future we may wish to monitor the chain of thought for signs of manipulating the user. However, for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought. We also do not want to make an unaligned chain of thought directly visible to users.<p>>Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users. We acknowledge this decision has disadvantages. We strive to partially make up for it by teaching the model to reproduce any useful ideas from the chain of thought in the answer. For the o1 model series we show a model-generated summary of the chain of thought.<p>So, let's recap. We went from:<p>- Weights-available research prototype with full scientific documentation (GPT-2)<p>- Commercial-scale model with API access only, full scientific documentation (GPT-3)<p>- Even bigger API-only model, tuned for chain-of-thought reasoning, minimal documentation on the implementation (GPT-4, 4v, 4o)<p>- An API-only model tuned to generate unedited chain-of-thought, which will not be shown to the user, even though it'd be really useful to have (o1)
Reminder that it's still not too late to change the direction of progress. We still have time to demand that our politicians put the breaks on AI data centres and end this insanity.<p>When AI exceeds humans at all tasks humans become economically useless.<p>People who are economically useless are also politically powerless, because resources are power.<p>Democracy works because the people (labourers) collectivised hold a monopoly on the production and ownership of resources.<p>If the state does something you don't like you can strike or refuse to offer your labour to a corrupt system. A state must therefore seek your compliance. Democracies do this by given people want they want. Authoritarian regimes might seek compliance in other ways.<p>But what is certain is that in a post-AGI world our leaders can be corrupt as they like because people can't do anything.<p>And this is obvious when you think about it... What power does a child or a disable person hold over you? People who have no ability to create or amass resources depend on their beneficiaries for everything including basics like food and shelter. If you as a parent do not give your child resources, they die. But your child does not hold this power over you. In fact they hold no power over you because they cannot withhold any resources from you.<p>In a post-AGI world the state would not depend on labourers for resources, jobless labourers would instead depend on the state. If the state does not provide for you like you provide for your children, you and your family will die.<p>In a good outcome where humans can control the AGI, you and your family will become subjects to the whims of state. You and your children will suffer as the political corruption inevitably arises.<p>In a bad outcome the AGI will do to cities what humans did to forests. And AGI will treat humans like humans treat animals. Perhaps we don't seek the destruction of the natural environment and the habitats of animals, but woodland and buffalo are sure inconvenient when building a super highway.<p>We can all agree there will be no jobs for our children. Even if you're an "AI optimist" we probably still agree that our kids will have no purpose. This alone should be bad enough, but if I'm right then there will be no future for them at all.<p>I will not apologise for my concern about AGI and our clear progress towards that end. It is not my fault if others cannot see the path I seem to see so clearly. I cannot simply be quiet about this because there's too much at stake. If you agree with me at all I urge you to not be either. Our children can have a great future if we allow them to have it. We don't have long, but we do still have time left.
A lot of skepticism here, but these are astonishing results! People should realize we’re reaching the point where LLMs are surpassing humans in any task limited in scope enough to be a “benchmark”. And as anyone who’s spent time using Claude 3.5 Sonnet / GPT-4o can attest, these things really are useful and smart! (And, if these results hold up, O1 is much, much smarter.) This is a nerve-wracking time to be a knowledge worker for sure.
> We have found that the performance of o1 consistently improves with more reinforcement learning (train-time compute) and with more time spent thinking (test-time compute).<p>Wow. So we can expect scaling to continue after all. Hyperscalers feeling pretty good about their big bets right now. Jensen is smiling.<p>This is the most important thing. Performance today matters less than the scaling laws. I think everyone has been waiting for the next release just trying to figure out what the future will look like. This is good evidence that we are on the path to AGI.
Before commenting here, please take 15 minutes to read through the chain-of-thought examples -- decoding a cypher-text, coding to solve a problem, solving a math problem, solving a crossword puzzle, answering a complex question in English, answering a complex question in Chemistry, etc.<p>After reading through the examples, I am <i>shocked</i> at how incredibly good the model is (or appears to be) at reasoning: far better than most human beings.<p>I'm impressed. Congratulations to OpenAI!
<i>after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.</i>
That naming scheme...<p>Will the next model be named "1k", so that the subsequent models will be named "4o1k", and we can all go into retirement?
I have also heard they are launching a AI called strawberry. If you pay attention, there is a specific reason why they have named it strawberry. if you ask chat gpt 4o, how many r's in the word strawberry, it will give answer as 2.
still to this day it will answer same. the model is not able to reason.
thats why a reasoning model is being launched. this is one of the reason apart from many other reasons.
I tested o1-preview on some coding stuff I've been using gpt-4o for. I am <i>not</i> impressed. The new, more intentional chain of thought logic is apparently not something it can meaningfully apply to a non-trivial codebase.<p>Sadly I think this OpenAI announcement is hot air. I am now (unfortunately) much less enthusiastic about upcoming OpenAI announcements. This is the first one that has been extremely underwhelming (though the big announcement about structured responses (months after it had already been supported nearly identically via JSONSchema) was in hindsight also hot air.<p>I think OpenAI is making the same mistake Google made with the search interface. Rather than considering it a command line to be mastered, Google optimized to generate better results for someone who had no mastery of how to type a search phrase.<p>Similarly, OpenAI is optimizing for someone who doesn't know how to interact with a context-limited LLM. Sure it helps the low end, but based on my initial testing this is not going to be helpful to anyone who had already come to understand how to create good prompts.<p>What is needed is the ability for the LLM to create a useful, ongoing meta-context for the conversation so that it doesn't make stupid mistakes and omissions. I was really hoping OpenAI would have something like this ready for use.