chain of thought
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2025 by Douwe Kiela · across every show →
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Mar 6, 2025 neutral
Kiela: GPT-4o is already effectively a reasoning model via chain of thought
“I mean, you could argue that GPT-IV-O is also already a reasoning model. It just hasn't been trained on reasoning specifically, but, ah, it can do chain of thought, right? So if it can do chain of thought, it's basically already a reasoning model. It just hasn…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 23, 2025
Using chain-of-thought as an RL reward destroys model interpretability
“If you're not careful with RL, you can make interpretability harder. For example, one Common thing with modern models is they do reasoning with the chain of thought. You could look at the chain of thoughts to, you know, see what are the model internal thoughts…”
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Aug 6, 2026 neutral
Wolf: Token Efficiency Makes AI Reasoning Traces Opaque to Humans
“And it's not because the model is dumb, but I think it's because probably, I mean, part of it is because of the training process and how they are trained to be efficient, how they use their token. But this means that they start to and bundle a lot of semantics…”