Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

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In a new study, Redwood Research, a research lab for AI alignment, has unveiled that large language models (LLMs) can master "encoded reasoning," a form of steganography. This intriguing phenomenon ...

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — ...