The release of OpenAI’s o1 model brought with it a flood of discussion about its new capabilities. OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman aptly framed the conversation by describing previous models as exhibiting “System I thinking,” where quick, instinctive responses dominate, while the promise of o1’s “chains of thought” might unlock “System II thinking” – more … Continue reading Unleashing System 2 Thinking? AlphaCodium Outperforms Direct Prompting of OpenAI o1