What are the downsides of OpenAI's chain-of-thought approach in the o1 model?
Last Updated: 29.06.2025 15:24
OpenAI’s chain-of-thought approach is good for complex reasoning but, there are many downsides.
#2. Errors in early reasoning - leads to wrong conclusions
#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
Did Leonardo da Vinci paint two Mona Lisas? Where are they?
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.
#1. It increases computational overhead and processing time - leads to lengthy outputs so, not feasible for simple tasks