OpenAI’s o1: Is It A New Reasoning Paradigm Or Just Smoke And Mirrors?

Author(s): Rafe Brena, Ph.D.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Perhaps none of them

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Reactions from the pundits to the recently released o1 from OpenAI couldn’t be more contrasting:

“A new paradigm of AI,” writes A. Romero.

“Strawberry is a giant misstep in completely the wrong direction,” writes Will Lockett.

Are we even talking about the same thing? Yes, as you probably know, OpenAI’s o1 became the public name for the “Strawberry” internal project months ago.

But what can we make of such opposite statements? Which one of them is lying? Probably none of them, but one should be utterly wrong, isn’t it?

As often is the case, the truth about OpenAI o1 is way more nuanced than completely opposed opinions. I know, usually, the strongest opinions get the attention spotlight, but my readers know that I prefer to tell things as they are, no BS at all.

Some informal statements from Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, suggested that o1 is a big change because “it can reason.”

Wouldn’t it be a big improvement to incorporate the “reasoning” ability? Of course, it would! Except that, in this case, “reason” is not the right way to put it.

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