What are the downsides of OpenAI's chain-of-thought approach in the o1 model?

Last Updated: 01.07.2025 00:53

What are the downsides of OpenAI's chain-of-thought approach in the o1 model?

#2. Errors in early reasoning - leads to wrong conclusions

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

Do you think there will ever be a movie that features a line such as “You graduated at the top of your class in liberal arts, we need your help”?

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