What are the downsides of OpenAI's chain-of-thought approach in the o1 model?
Last Updated: 28.06.2025 03:23
OpenAI’s chain-of-thought approach is good for complex reasoning but, there are many downsides.
#1. It increases computational overhead and processing time - leads to lengthy outputs so, not feasible for simple tasks
#2. Errors in early reasoning - leads to wrong conclusions
If you believe in God, do you think God can save you from cancer?
To explain the downsides better, you can try asking same question to GPT, it will provide a lengthy answer as if it were answering a question paper.
#3. Provides unnecessary details - bad user experience as some users need specific output to certain queries and having to analyze a big response can be hectic