ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement
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Otherwise the self-serve machines at Mcdonalds should cost the company the same as an employee with a fair salary. Mass assembly lines building cars and machines should cost the same as 100+ workers including costs of health benefits and breaks.
one can always refuse to use
In this video, Sam Altman and team introduce OpenAI o3 and o3-mini, showcasing their advanced reasoning capabilities and performance benchmarks compared to earlier models. The session highlights the models' robust accuracy in coding and mathematical tasks, as well as new safety testing initiatives involving community participation. The o3-mini is noted for its cost-efficient performance, while safety strategies are enhanced through deliberative alignment.
## Key Points
### Introduction to o3 and o3-mini models
During the final day of their 12-day event, OpenAI announces two new models: o3 and o3-mini. These models are positioned as advancements in AI reasoning capabilities, following the success of the earlier o1 model.
### Performance benchmarks
The o3 model achieves significant improvements in capabilities, scoring 71.7% on software benchmarks and reaching near-expert levels on competitive math exams. In comparison to o1, it shows over 20% improvement in coding tasks.
### Safety testing initiatives
OpenAI emphasizes safety testing for the new models, opening access for researchers to facilitate public testing. The goal is to ensure models are safe for general use while their capabilities are further validated.
### Introduction of o3-mini
The o3-mini is presented as a cost-efficient alternative to o3, also equipped with strong reasoning powers, allowing adjustable thinking time to optimize performance based on user needs.
### New safety techniques: deliberative alignment
A new safety training technique, deliberative alignment, uses reasoning capabilities of the models to create better safety benchmarks, enhancing the ability to accurately reject unsafe prompts.
### Future developments and availability
The video concludes with information on how to apply for early access to test these models with expectations of full public availability in early 2025, alongside a call for safety researchers to contribute.
people are fond of comparing large bleeding edge models, but when we compare the small ones to say gpt3.5, it is still astonishing.
to me the smaller models being the balance of intelligence and cost is the best indicator of what the general population can use and afford.
the larger models end up being used mostly by individuals teams and orgs who can afford to pay for it and learn how to use it.
keep in mind at this day and age there is still a lot of people who dont know these things exist. it's just outside of their reality. then there are who have the slightest idea about it, but won't commit the time and money needed to learn it and fully experience it.
this is like the new generational transfer of wealth and information. even if you're an individual or a small team, with enough levers you can use these technologies to your advantage, and with more levers (like yc) you can enter the battlefield and compete with existing companies.
its internal mechanism is still statistical prediction of text in units of tokens. that math seemed lucid enough to be able to use functions.
(It originally said “early 2024” instead of “early 2025”. The YouTube transcript says “around the end of January”.)
“You’re absolutely right. We shouldn’t have run 120v through that capacitor rated for 10v. Here’s an updated design that fixes the issue”, then proceed to explain the same thing with a resistor placed at random.
No we mean safety from our LLM saying something that pisses off a politician, or even worse… hurting someone’s /feelings/.
> Reductio ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to Hitler"), also known as playing the Nazi card, is an attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practised by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.
reduction ad hitlerum =/= "mentioning hitler in any way"
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