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Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities (arstechnica.com)

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

…a spellchecker on steroids.

Ask literally any of the LLM chat bots out there still using any headless GPT instances from 2023 how many Rs there are in “strawberry,” and enjoy. 🍓

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

This problem is due to the fact that the AI isnt using english words internally, it's tokenizing. There are no Rs in {35006}.

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

LLMs don’t see words, they see tokens. They were always just guessing

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