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The Rise of Whatever

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627 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.826s | source
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vincnetas ◴[04 Jul 25 07:04 UTC] No.44461859[source]▶
After reading "...the press release and in the fine print it says that now it can count the number of letters in “Mississippi” correctly or whatever" tried to count letters in another word :)

You said: how many letters are in the lithuanian word "nebeprisikaspinaudamas"? Just give me one number. ChatGPT said: 23

You said: how many letters are in the lithuanian word 'nebeprisikaspinaudamas'. Just give me one number. ChatGPT said: 21

Both are incorrect by the way. It's 22

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fsh ◴[04 Jul 25 08:58 UTC] No.44462618[source]▶
I'm all for making fun of LLMs, but asking this from a software that processes vectors of tokens is a bit silly. The information isn't really there in the input.
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1. layer8 ◴[04 Jul 25 15:53 UTC] No.44465593[source]▶
Then it shouldn’t pretend to know the correct answer.