OpenAI o1 Model Warning Issued by Scientist: ‘Particularly Dangerous’ [Video]

OpenAI‘s o1-preview, its new series of “enhanced reasoning” models, has prompted warnings from AI pioneer professor Yoshua Bengio about the potential risks associated with increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.

According to the company, these new models are designed to “spend more time thinking before they respond,” allowing them to tackle complex tasks and solve harder problems in fields such as science, coding, and math.

This preview version of o1, which went by the codename ‘Project Strawberry‘, is now available for ChatGPT Pro subscribers to try out and is also available through OpenAI’s API.

According to OpenAI, the performance of these models is notable:

• In qualifying exams for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), the new model correctly solved 83 percent of problems, compared to only 13 percent solved by its predecessor, GPT-4o.
• In coding contests, the model reached the 89th percentile in Codeforces competitions.
• The model reportedly performs similarly to PhD …