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Some people in the artificial intelligence industry have been skeptical about whether reasoning models such as OpenAI’s o1 represent a paradigm shift. After all, the model hasn’t gotten much usage in ChatGPT. But these skeptics may not fully understand what reasoning models are actually good for.The queries that ChatGPT typically handles won’t necessarily produce better answers through reasoning models, researchers tell me. But if you talk to hardcore scientists, things get interesting. I recently chatted w
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After OpenAI sparked a race this fall by releasing groundbreaking artificial intelligence known as reasoning AI, it seemed like the ChatGPT owner might run away with the market. Both Google and Microsoft scrambled to catch up with the technology, which aims to help users answer complex, multi-step questions, according to two people involved in the effort at the companies. But in the past week or so, the dynamics of the... Read more ›
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Some people in the artificial intelligence industry have been skeptical about whether reasoning models such as OpenAI’s o1 represent a paradigm shift. After all, the model hasn’t gotten much usage in ChatGPT. But these skeptics may not fully understand what reasoning models are actually good for.The queries that ChatGPT typically handles won’t necessarily produce better answers through reasoning models, researchers tell me. But if you talk to hardcore scientists, things... Read more ›
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