Comment by kgeist

2 months ago

Qwen3 32b with reasoning (which I run locally) gives the correct answer. A pretty good model for its size.

Pretty sure GPT5 with reasoning should be able to solve it, too. I guess the real problem here is that GPT5's router doesn't understand that it's a problem which requires reasoning.

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leptons  2 months ago

Can it count all 3 letter words in a paragraph? Can it average number of words inside parentheses in a paragraph?

  • kgeist  2 months ago

    I asked Qwen3 32b (with reasoning) to count all 3 letter words in your post. Its answer was:

      There are 3 three-letter words in the given text:

  "Can" (first instance)
  "all"
  "Can" (second instance)

    Sounds about right.

    Then I took this answer and asked to count the average number of words inside parentheses. The answer was:

      The average number of words in the parentheses from the given example is 2 words per parenthesis. 

  Here's the breakdown:
  1. "Can" (first instance): Parentheses contain "first instance" (2 words).
  2. "all": No parentheses, so excluded.
  3. "Can" (second instance): Parentheses contain "second instance" (2 words).

  Total words in parentheses: 2 + 2 = 4  
  Number of parentheses: 2  
  Average: 4 ÷ 2 = 2.

    Correct again. Everything on the first try.