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Side note: I found out about it because an IT guy wanted me to know it can count the Rs in strawberry. Groundbreaking stuff.

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To be fair to "Open"AI, the example in the blog post, if real, was kind of impressive since it involved decoding a just-slightly-nontrivial cipher which encoded the sentence "there are 3 r's in strawberry". So it solved a modestly interesting puzzle (but didn't actually count the r's in "strawberry" 😂). But these examples are always cherry-picked (er, strawberry-picked ) for the advertising material.

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Yes, although the way they’ve made it fake “hm, I’m thinking” like a person is another creepy choice by OpenAI. The affordance to view the work is a win.

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In their blog post "Open"AI said explicitly that they would actually be hiding the "chain of thought" from end users, providing only a model-based summary (which of course need not be accurate)

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Hiding the chain of thought?

Since there is no actual thought involved, hiding it is pretty easy.

It’s just like hiding empty space.

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Touché.

I'm just using the anthropomorphized lingo they use. Call it whatever you like, all those tokens they generate between the query and final answer are hidden from view.

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Everything else the “Open”AI does is hidden.

Why ruin their 1000 batting average by being transparent in this case?

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