This is an incredible paper that I've longed to do for a long time. However the engineering challenges were far too daunting, so my collaborators and I settled for indirect evidence for this hypothesis instead (or did other things).
Big congratulations to Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social for obtaining his PhD today and crafting a beautiful thesis full of original and insightful work!! 🎉 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.16433?
Sometimes o1's thinking time almost feels like a slight. o1 is like "oh I thought about this uninvolved question of yours for 7 seconds and here is my 20 page essay on it"
"Rather than being animals that *think*, we are *animals* that think"; the last sentence of Tom Griffiths's characterisation of human intelligence through limited time, compute, and communication hits different today than it did 4 years ago.
I'll be at NeurIPS tues-sun, send me a message if you'd like to chat!
I really enjoyed my MLST chat with Tim @neuripsconf.bsky.social about the research we've been doing on reasoning, robustness and human feedback. If you have an hour to spare and are interested in AI robustness, it may be worth a listen 🎧
Check it out at youtu.be/DL7qwmWWk88?...