OpenAI's new o1 model, designed with "enhanced reasoning," hides its full thought process from users, and gives policy warnings for asking about it.

If you want to try the o1 models for yourself, you can create a free ChatGPT account, sign in, toggle "alpha modes" from the model picker, and choose o1-mini. If you want to try o1-preview, you'll have to subscribe to a ChatGPT Plus account for $20 per month.

The gist is that perhaps o1 was devised to make use of the process-based reinforcement learning approach, especially since o1 also automatically makes use of chain-of-thought. Whereas generative AI usually requires a user to invoke chain-of-thought, o1 automatically does so. The user seemingly can’t prevent it from happening.