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Comment by energy123

1 day ago

It is expensive. But if I'm correct about o1, it means user mistrust of LLMs is going to be a short-lived thing as costs come down and more people use o1 (or better) models as their daily driver.

> mistrust of LLMs is going to be a short-lived thing as costs come down and more people use o1

I think the biggest question is, is o1 scalable. I think o1 does well because it is going back and forth hundreds if not thousands of times. Somebody mentioned in a thread that I was participating in that they let o1 crunch things for 10 minutes. It sounded like it saved them a lot work, so it was well worth it.

Whether or not o1 is practical for the general public is something we will have to wait and see.

  • I'm going to wager "yes" because o3-mini (High) gets equal benchmark scores to o1 despite using 1/3rd as much compute, and because the consistent trend has been towards rapid order-of-magnitude decreases in price for a fixed level of intelligence (trend has many components dovetailing, both hardware and software related). Can't forecast the future, but this would be my bet on a time horizon of < 3 years.