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YC

Y Combinator Cast

10/25/24

@ Y Combinator

Without the chain of thought approach, language models would simply predict the most likely token without sufficient context.

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Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal | YC Decoded

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Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal | YC Decoded

10/25/24

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YC

Y Combinator Cast

11/22/23

@ Y Combinator

AI currently lacks consciousness and is primarily focused on predicting the next token in language modeling, which is a simplistic objective.

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Trenton Bricken

05/23/25

@ Dwarkesh Patel

The challenge with language models is that while they can learn from feedback, they often lack the ability to generalize effectively across different tasks without specific scaffolding.

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Lex Fridman Cast

02/03/25

@ Lex Fridman

Chain of thought models can flip back and forth between languages, sometimes producing gibberish before arriving at the right answer, which can be both fascinating and concerning.

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Sam Altman

11/09/24

@ Y Combinator

The journey to discovering the potential of language models was not straightforward; we initially explored various other technologies.

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Professor Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

The realization that language operates as an autonomous system reveals that it can generate meaningful sequences without needing to reference external concepts or grounding.

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Raza Habib

03/01/23

@ Y Combinator

The evolution of language models, particularly with the introduction of GPT-3, has demonstrated a significant leap in their ability to perform language tasks, even though they do not possess real-world knowledge.

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Elan Barenholtz

06/12/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

Language is an autoregressive model, and this autoregressive nature is fundamental to how we generate and understand language.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

10/25/24

@ Y Combinator

OpenAI's approach to implementing chain of thought reasoning in o1 remains largely undisclosed, but it likely involves advanced prompt engineering techniques.

YC

Y Combinator Cast

01/24/25

@ Y Combinator

By allowing models to think longer, large language models can leverage more compute on the fly, enhancing their intelligence for complex problems.