Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?
Forbes December 10, 2024
OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This chain-of-thought reasoning works more like we humans do, by decomposing a problem into bite-sized chunks and tackling (computing) those chunks in sequence. Especially useful in STEM and math problems, o1 generated a lot of interest.
Is o1 That Good?
OpenAI o1 certainly is impressive. While most would argue it isn’t yet general AI, it scores 83% on the Mathematics Olympiad, basically operating at a Ph.D.-level of accuracy, vs. 13% for GPT4.0.
But o1 has three problems: 1. it...