O1’s chained reasoning is impressive but still not intelligence.
No. OpenAI’s o1 does not directly answer a question. Instead, it creates a plan to determine the best way to answer, then critiques its response, improves it, and continues refining. This chained output is truly impressive. But this is not intelligence. It’s a fixed framework and not dynamic. The more critique cycles you allow the model, the more facets it can address, but this comes at the cost of increased time. It’s still pattern-based work, not real intelligence.