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GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" (bsky.app)

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given that it was identified that genAI couldn't do maths and should instead write a small python program, why hasn't this other well-known failing been special cased? AI sees text as tokens, but surely it can convert tokens to a stream of single-character tokens (i.e. letters) and work with that?

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Cause its a useless skill unless you are making crossword puzzles or verifying that an LLM is using tokens.