what’s so exciting about o1 and why are people going crazy with o1 when GPT 4 was already doing the same job?
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The main difference between chatGPT-4 and chatGPT o1 is in how they think through questions.
chatGPT-4 just reads your input and gives you an answer straight up based on that. Think of asking someone a complicated math problem but only giving them 5 seconds to answer. They will make a guess, but they won’t really go through the problem and most answers are wrong.
o1 uses something called chain of thought reasoning. Instead of jumping to the final answer, it kind of “talks to itself” before and breaks the problem into smaller chunks, step by step, before giving the final answer. So, if you asked the same math problem it would go through the problem and ask questions to itself like “what kind of problem is this”, “What could be possible approaches to solve this”, “Which of the approaches seems most promising”, “What is the first step towards the solution” etc.. And only from these intermediate outputs it generates a final answer.
This makes it way superior for tough problems like math, logic, programming or puzzles but also means it’s slower and needs more resources to think things through. o1 also lacks a few features from chatgpt-4 like the ability to process images and audio.
And personally I also find that chatgpt-4 is a bit more eloquent, producing text that is nicer to read when it is supposed to just summarize something etc.
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