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ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Thursday released a new series of artificial intelligence models designed to spend more time thinking, in the hopes that generative AI chatbots will provide more accurate and beneficial answers.
The new models, known as OpenAI o1-Preview, are designed to tackle complex tasks and solve more difficult problems in science, coding and mathematics, something previous models have been criticized for failing to deliver consistently.
Unlike their predecessors, these models have been trained to refine their thinking processes, try different methods and acknowledge mistakes, before deploying a final response.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hailed the models as “a new paradigm: AI capable of performing complex, general-purpose reasoning.”
He cautioned, however, that the technology “is still imperfect, still limited, and it always seems more impressive the first time you use it than after you spend more time with it.”
Microsoft-backed OpenAI said that in tests, the models performed comparable to PhD students on difficult tasks in physics, chemistry and biology.
They also excelled in math and coding, achieving an 83% pass rate on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematical Olympiad, compared to 13% for GPT-4o, its most advanced general-purpose model.
The company said the enhanced reasoning capabilities could be used by health care researchers to annotate cell sequencing data, by physicists to generate complex formulas or by computer developers to create and execute multi-step designs.
The company also said the models had survived rigorous jailbreak testing and could better withstand attempts to bypass its safeguards.
OpenAI said its enhanced security measures also included recent agreements with the US and UK AI Safety Institutes, which were granted early access to the models for evaluation and testing.
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