OpenAI has unveiled another artificial intelligence model. It’s called o1, and the company claims it can perform complex reasoning tasks more effectively than its predecessors. Apparently, o1 was trained to “spend more time thinking about problems before responding.” According to the company: “[The models] learn to refine their thinking process, try different strategies, and recognize their mistakes.”
This more thoughtful response means it’s significantly slower at processing signals than GPT-4o. And while it may think more, o1 hasn’t solved the problem of hallucinations — a term for AI models that make up information. “We can’t say we’ve solved hallucinations,” OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew told The Verge.
iFixit Wants to Fix the Soldering Iron
The FixHub is a USB-C powered soldering iron designed to help you fix whatever’s on your workbench (and is easily fixable itself). The iron includes a 55Wh battery pack, which acts as a stand and temperature control. Founder Kyle Wiens told Engadget that the FixHub was born out of frustration with soldering irons and their limitations. So his company tried to fix them.
Elgato’s latest Stream Deck is a $900 rackmount beast
Elgato has introduced the Stream Deck Studio, a new version of its creative control technology targeted at professionals. This 19-inch rackmount console has 32 LCD keys and two rotary dials. Oh, and a $900 price tag.
After a decade — and countless clones — the original Flappy Bird is coming back. If you don’t remember the 2014 hit mobile game, you’d tap the screen to flap the bird’s wings and squeeze it through gaps between pipes. The game debuted in May 2013, but it didn’t become popular until the following January.
Developer Dong Nguyen soon revealed that the game was making $50,000 a day from advertising. He decided to remove the game, but clones of his creation remain. Under the banner of the Flappy Bird Foundation, some dedicated fans officially acquired the rights to the game, so now it’s coming back.
OpenAI has begun previewing a new tool called Operator that can navigate within a web browser. The software is described by the company as a computer-using agent that can be operated by a computer, according to a blog post published Thursday. “CUA is trained to interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) — the buttons, menus, and text fields that people see on screens — just as humans do,” OpenAI says of the model. “This allows it to perform digital tasks without using OS- or web-specific APIs.”
The current release of Operator is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. It combines that algorithm’s vision capabilities with “advanced reasoning” trained through reinforcement learning. Operator has the ability to “break down tasks into multi-step plans and adaptively self-correct when challenges arise.” That ability represents the next step in AI evolution, according to OpenAI.