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> It excels at ... researching online

How does this work exactly? Is there like a "search online" tool that the harness is expected to provide? Or does the OpenAI infra do that as part of serving the response?

I've been working on building my own agent, just for fun, and I conceptually get using a command line, listing files, reading them, etc, but am sort of stumped how I'm supposed to do the web search piece of it.

Given that they're calling out that this model is great at online research - to what extent is that a property of the model itself? I would have thought that was a harness concern.

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I’ve noticed when writing little bedtime stories that require specific research (my kids like Pokemon stories and they’ve been having an episodic “pokemon adventure” with them as the protagonists) ChatGPT has done a fantastic job of first researching the moves the pokemon have, then writing the actual story. The only mistake it consistently makes is when I summarize and move from a full context session, it thinks that Gyarados has to swim and is incapable of flying.

It definitely seems like it does all the searching first, with a separate model, loads that in, then does the actual writing.

Gyarados is a flying type but I think it may be accurate that it can't actually fly. The only flying moves it can learn in any generation are Hurricane and Bounce (Bounce does send the user up into the air for a turn but the implication is that they've trampolined up extremely high rather than used wings to ascend)

If anything it should probably be combined water/dragon type

I agree. Given that there's only a single dragon type evolutionary line in gen 1 and that it's the last in the Pokedex before Mewtwo, I suspect dragon wasn't even one of their possible types when they designed Gyarados.

It's a property of the model in the sense that it has great Google Fu.

The harness provides the search tool, but the model provides the keywords to search for, etc.

It's literally a distinct model with a different optimisation goal compared to normal chat. There's a ton of public information around how they work and how they're trained

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