Online chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini sometimes struggle with simple mathematical problems. The computer code they generate is often buggy and incomplete. Occasionally, they even make things up.
On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT that could address these flaws. The company said the chatbot, powered by new artificial intelligence technology called OpenAI o1, would be able to “reason” through tasks related to math, coding and science.
“With previous models like ChatGPT, you ask them a question and they start responding immediately,” said Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist. “This model can take its time. It can think through the problem — in English — and try to break it down and look for angles to try to come up with the best answer.”
