It also offers relationship advice and fills in movie plot holes
When OpenAI released the much-hyped Strawberry model for ChatGPT this week, it boasted of its prowess with complex logic like software coding, gene sequencing, and quantum physics in a series of videos. I take the company at its word that the models, called o1-preview and o1-mini on ChatGPT, are capable of what they claim. Cracking advanced equations and exploring genomes seems like something it would have no problem doing.
But, as a proud member of my middle school’s logic and riddle club, I wanted to know how it did on my turf, solving and making puzzles and riddles. And then I thought I should ask the uber-logical AI for advice on other, more day-to-day issues. Could it offer sound relationship advice, tell me what a weird noise in a car meant, and perhaps even fill in plot holes in movies?Logic yes humor no
The short answer is yes. The o1-preview and mini models are really good at solving simple and complex riddles. I played around with both, and the only real difference was how many extra steps and, therefore, the speed of the mini. But, while they may be slower than GPT-4o, they are very fast at solving those riddles compared to a human. Notably, you can actually see how it lays out the answers in different steps. I tested it on a couple of my favorites, including one from The Hobbit. The AI’s logic made sense, though it was sometimes ungrammatical, as when it explained weighing Mike the butcher.
