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OpenAI's AI Reasoning Model 'Thinks' In Chinese Sometimes, No One Really Knows Why

OpenAI's "reasoning" AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of "thinking" in Chinese, Persian, or some other language -- "even when asked a question in English," reports TechCrunch. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to provide an explanation, AI experts have proposed ...

OpenAI's "reasoning" AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of "thinking" in Chinese, Persian, or some other language-- "even when asked a question in English," reports TechCrunch. From the report: Several on X, including Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, alluded to the fact that reasoning models like o1 are trained on datasets containing a lot of Chinese characters. "By embracing every linguistic nuance, we expand the model's worldview and allow it to learn from the full spectrum of human knowledge," Wang wrote in a post on X.

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