OpenAI's Hot New AI Has an Embarrassing Problem

How have we not solved this yet?! Bucking the Trend OpenAI launched its latest AI reasoning models, dubbed o3 and o4-mini, last week. According to the Sam Altman-led company, the new models outperform their predecessors and "excel at solving complex math, coding, and scientific challenges while demonstrating strong visual perception and analysis." But there's one extremely important area where o3 and o4-mini appear to instead be taking a major step back: they tend to make things up — or "hallucinate" — substantially more than those earlier versions, as TechCrunch reports. The news once again highlights a nagging technical issue that has plagued the industry for years now. Tech companies have struggled to rein in rampant hallucinations, which have greatly undercut the usefulness of tools like ChatGPT. Worryingly, OpenAI's two new models also buck a historical trend, which has seen each new model incrementally hallucinating less than the previous one, as TechCrunch points out, sugg ... Read full article.