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Learning to Reason with LLMs

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Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#41

Generating more "think out loud" tokens and hiding them from the user... Idk if I'm "feeling the AGI" if I'm being honest. Also... telling that they choose to benchmark against CodeForces rather than SWE-bench.

Why not? Isn't that basically what humans do? Sit there and think for a while before answering, going down different branches/chains of thought?

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#42
post #8

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. 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 resu…

Can you explain what you mean by this?

This is a transcription of a literal quote from the article:

> 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

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#43

Damn, that looks like a big jump.

so o1 seems like it has real measurable edge, crushing it in every single metric, i mean 1673 elo is insane, and 89th percentile is like a whole different league, and it looks like it's not just a one off either, it's consistently performing way better than gpt-4o across all the datasets, even in the ones where gpt-4o was already doing pretty well, like math and mmlu, o1 is just taking it to the next level, and the f…

> like what's it doing differently, is it just a matter of more training data or is there something more going on

Well, the model doesn't start with "GPT", so maybe they have come up with something better.

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#44

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.

It starts to matter if the compute time is 10-100 fold, as the provider needs to bill for it. Of course, that's assuming it's not priced for market acquisition funded by a huge operational deficit, which is a rarely safe to conclude with AI right now.

Given that their compute-time vs accuracy charts labeled the compute time axis as logarithmic would worry me greatly about this aspect.

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#45
post #39

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 knowled…

I cannot, in fact, attest that they are useful and smart. LLMs remain a fun toy for me, not something that actually produces useful results.

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#46
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

> 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.

Weekly? Holy crap, how expensive is it to run is this model?

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#47
post #13

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.

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Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#48
> 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.

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.

I suspect "competitive advantage" is the primary driver here, but that just gives competitors like Anthropic an oppertunity.

Re: Learning to Reason with LLMs

#49

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. 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…

> Hopefully the open source community will figure out how to effectively match and replicate what OpenAI is doing.

No need for that, there is a Reflection 70B model that does the exact same thing - with chains of thought being separated from the "final answer" via custom 'tag' tokens.

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