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Comment by teiferer

3 hours ago

No, tokenization is not the only reason. A next-word predictor has fundamentally a hard time executing algorithms, even as simple as counting.

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mitthrowaway2  21 minutes ago

Counting is one of the algorithms that can be expressed by a RASP program, which transformers closely approximate.

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