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‘Reasoning’ AI models have become a trend, for better or worse
So-called reasoning models like OpenAI's o1 look to be the next trend in AI. There's pros and cons to this, experts say.
As my colleague Max Zeff recently reported, “brute force” techniques to scale up models are no longer yielding the improvements they once did. “The overall cost of [large language model] reasoning is certainly not going down,” Guy Van Den Broeck, a professor of computer science at UCLA, told TechCrunch. “The big labs understandably have competitive reasons to remain secretive, but this lack of transparency severely hinders the research community’s ability to engage with these ideas,” he said.
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