Bug Report [IMG_4463] " Description: The AI incorrectly states that the word “strawberry” contains only two ‘r’ characters, despite the user querying multiple times for confirmation. Steps to Reproduce: Ask the AI how many ‘r’ characters are in the word “strawberry.” Observe the AI’s respon…

Looks like OpenAI owes you a million dollars :rofl: This was an issue a while ago when using models like <3.5 It’s… Beautiful to see it pop up again. Both 4 and 4o fail this. The reason this happens is the tokenization process of the semantics destroys the meaning of each individual letter by som…

Can you write a python program to count how many 'r’s in ‘strrawberries’, execute it and provide the answer? The word “strrawberries” contains 4 'r’s :slight_smile:

I tried something similar to “verify with code” and it’s kinda amazing [Screenshot 2024-06-21 at 21-31-47 ChatGPT]

divide strawberry in half and count letters of each section separately and also calculate the sum from both set and present Overall Letter Count … Letter Count Summary s: 1 (in “straw”) t: 1 (in “straw”) r: 1 (in “straw”) + 2 (in “berry”) = 3 total a: 1 (in “straw”) w: 1 (in “straw”) b: 1 (in “be…

[image] It gets confused easily over letters and sounds

Cool! If you type “strawbery” : The word “strawbery” actually has only one “r.” The correct spelling is “strawberry” with two "r"s. If you type “Strawbey” : There are no 'r’s in “strawbey.” It seems like a misspelling of “strawberry,” which has one ‘r.’ [image]

[image] You can also kind of nudge it, apparently.

how many "r"s in word strawberry. Think three times

Incorrect count of 'r' characters in the word "strawberry“

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w_c_online June 19, 2024, 4:31pm 4

I was able to replicate this just a moment ago and it can be fixed by adding one line:

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Incorrect count of 'r' characters in the word "strawberry“

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