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Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’

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  1. teaearlgraycold
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    Back when I first got access to GPT-4 with Bing search and browsing support I tried to get it to do research in a semi-automated fashion. I had it look up current events, pick one, search that...

    The project, details of which have not been previously reported, comes as the Microsoft-backed startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities.

    Teams inside OpenAI are working on Strawberry, according to a copy of a recent internal OpenAI document seen by Reuters in May. Reuters could not ascertain the precise date of the document, which details a plan for how OpenAI intends to use Strawberry to perform research. The source described the plan to Reuters as a work in progress. The news agency could not establish how close Strawberry is to being publicly available.

    Back when I first got access to GPT-4 with Bing search and browsing support I tried to get it to do research in a semi-automated fashion. I had it look up current events, pick one, search that event and get a few excerpts, etc. I got a few steps down the path and, bizarrely, at some point the AI refused to continue. It called me out for trying to use it to perform research and said it was not capable of the task. So OpenAI put guard rails on the current generation models to stop them from being used for this use case.

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  2. winther
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    From what I understand from this article it is more like a theoretical framework of concepts and not really something concrete. Yet another thing to hype investors.

    From what I understand from this article it is more like a theoretical framework of concepts and not really something concrete. Yet another thing to hype investors.

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      AlexStrinka
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      I would guess that it was just randomly chosen from a list of inoffensive words. Part of the point of a code name is that the name doesn't give information about what the the thing it refers to is.

      I would guess that it was just randomly chosen from a list of inoffensive words. Part of the point of a code name is that the name doesn't give information about what the the thing it refers to is.

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        teaearlgraycold
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        Having seen some industry code names, you'd be surprised. I think Strawberry is probably a random word, but there are big players out there with code names that literally just describe what the...

        Having seen some industry code names, you'd be surprised. I think Strawberry is probably a random word, but there are big players out there with code names that literally just describe what the product is.

        I don't want to upset any lawyers. So I won't say any real code names. But as an example - there are code names as revealing as calling the original Apple Watch "Codename: Wristband". Although in reality Apple is very good at silo-ing information.

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        1. DynamoSunshirt
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          My favourite was Shamu for the Nexus 6. An absolute beast of a phone, probably 50% more screen area than most competitors. Truly a whale of a phone!

          My favourite was Shamu for the Nexus 6. An absolute beast of a phone, probably 50% more screen area than most competitors. Truly a whale of a phone!

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