It must be a silent R

Copilot may be a stupid LLM but the human in the screenshot used an apostrophe to pluralize which, in my opinion, is an even more egregious offense.

It's incorrect to pluralizing letters, numbers, acronyms, or decades with apostrophes in English. I will now pass the pedant stick to the next person in line.

Plenty of fun to be had with LLMs.

Stwawberry

The T in "ninja" is silent. Silent and invisible.

“Create a python script to count the number of r characters are present in the string strawberry.”

The number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry' is: 2

Welp, it's reached my level of intelligence.

This is hardly programmer humor… there is probably an infinite amount of wrong responses by LLMs, which is not surprising at all.

I was curious if (since these are statistical models and not actually counting letters) maybe this or something like it is a common "gotcha" question used as a meme on social media. So I did a search on DDG and it also has an AI now which turned up an interestingly more nuanced answer.

It's picked up on discussions specifically about this problem in chats about other AI! The ouroboros is feeding well! I figure this is also why they overcorrect to 4 if you ask them about "strawberries", trying to anticipate a common gotcha answer to further riddling.

DDG correctly handled "strawberries" interestingly, with the same linked sources. Perhaps their word-stemmer does a better job?

"it is possible to train 8 days a week."

-- that one ai bot google made

5% of the times it works every time.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Future.

Q: "How many r are there in strawberry?"

A: "This question is usually answered by giving a number, so here's a number: 632. Mission complete."

It can also help you with medical advice.

There ARE two "R"s in strawberry.

There's also a third one, but you can't have three without having two.

Boy, your face is red like a strawbrerry.

Jesus hallucinatin' christ on a glitchy mainframe.

I'm assuming it's real though it may not be but - seriously, this is spellcheck. You know how long we've had spellcheck? Over two hundred years.

This? This is what's thrown the tech markets into chaos? This garbage?

Fuck.

Using a token predictor to do sub-token analysis produces bad results?!?! Shocking Wow great content

"strawberry".split('').filter(c => c === 'r').length

maybe it’s using the british pronunciation of “strawbry”

There’s a simple explanation: LLMs are “R” agnostic because they were specifically trained to not sail the high seas

Garbage in, garbage out. Keep feeding it shit data, expect shit answers.

To be fair, I knew a lot of people who struggled with word problems in math class.

I stand with chat-gpt on this. Whoever created these double letters is the idiot here.

I tried it with my abliterated local model, thinking that maybe its alteration would help, and it gave the same answer. I asked if it was sure and it then corrected itself (maybe reexamining the word in a different way?) I then asked how many Rs in "strawberries" thinking it would either see a new word and give the same incorrect answer, or since it was still in context focus it would say something about it also being 3 Rs. Nope. It said 4 Rs! I then said "really?", and it corrected itself once again.

LLMs are very useful as long as know how to maximize their power, and you don't assume whatever they spit out is absolutely right. I've had great luck using mine to help with programming (basically as a Google but formatting things far better than if I looked up stuff), but I've found some of the simplest errors in the middle of a lot of helpful things. It's at an assistant level, and you need to remember that assistant helps you, they don't do the work for you.

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A humorous follow up response would be "sure, here's another question: How the hell did they think you were ready to be utilized?"

The only correct answer: "I can answer that for you! The reason they thought I was ready to be utilized by the general public is because money!"

Tnf, this is the kind of answer a person might give if you asked them the question randomly.

[Intelligence 1/10] There are two R's in the word "strawberry"

It has [2] R's, simple!

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i had fun arguing with chatgpt about this

I hate AI, but here it's a bit understandable why copilot says that. If you ask the same thing to someone else they would surely respond 2 as they my imply you are trying to spell the word, and struggle on whether it's one or two R on the last part.

I know it's a common thing to ask in french when we struggle to spell our overly complicated language, so it doesn't shock me

You’ve discovered an artifact!! Yaaaay

If you ask GPT to do this in a more math questiony way, itll break it down and do it correctly. Just gotta narrow top_p and temperature down a bit

The people here don't get LLMs and it shows. This is neither surprising nor a bad thing imo.