Comment by HarHarVeryFunny
9 hours ago
Yes, and as the article itself notes, the page image has more than just "145" - there's a "u"-like symbol over the 1, which the model is either failing to notice, or perhaps is something it recognizes from training as indicating pounds.
The article's assumption of how the model ended up "transcribing" "1 loaf of sugar u/145" as "1 loaf of sugar 14lb 5oz" seems very speculative. It seems more reasonable to assume that a massive frontier model knows something about loaves of sugar and their weight range, and in fact Google search's "AI overview" of "how heavy is a loaf of sugar" says the common size is approximately 14lb.
There’s also a clear extra space between the 4 and 5, so figuring out to group it as “not 1 45, nor 145 but 14 5” doesn’t seem worthy of astonishment.