Despite their uncanny language skills, leading AI chatbots still struggle with reasoning. Imbuing AI with those kinds of skills would greatly increase its utility.
A new project code-named ‘strawberry’ could reportedly be on the verge of changing that, capable of navigating the internet autonomously, and carrying out what OpenAI refers to as ‘deep research’.
They use a concept known as ‘chain-of-thought’ prompting, whereby a large language model is asked to explain the reasons behind its answer to a query.
Leading AI companies have been pouring billions of dollars into making the next great leap and reasoning has been an obvious bottleneck on which to focus their resources.
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