OpenAI's Mark Sellke and Mehtaab Sawhney on why they publish the model's mathematical thinking, not just its proofs: Mark: "We decided it was important to release these summarized chains of thought... If you've never seen these and you just see all these proofs coming out, you're not sure what it means." "Is the model just guessing in some insane way? Is it thinking in some totally foreign way? What's going on? But actually, it's reasoning kind of shockingly like an expert human would." Mehtaab: "It's very much like reading a colleague's notes. It's a little more disorganized in some ways." "Especially if you work close enough with a collaborator, sometimes you'll just see them spill out their thoughts in an email to you. It feels like reading a lot of those chained together. It's quite surprising the first few times." @MarkSellke @mehtaab_sawhney(a16z)