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Comment by flyinglizard

7 hours ago

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That's an artifact of it not using A-Z as it's alphabet. What you type gets translated before the AI sees it. The seventeen word the AI sees does only contain three 'e' s.

  • Is this true? If so, does it mean anything? Sure, it is tokenized in processing (tokens don't really have an alphabet either), but this means it did not correctly parse the problem at all if this is the case.

  • Reading your comment, I asked it to count how many characters are in the word. It answered correctly: 9. It then also said it skipped an E in the prior chat and corrected it count to 4. It spun for 52 seconds so maybe some Python was involved.

    • > It spun for 52 seconds so maybe some Python was involved.

      Come for the AI doom, stay for the programming languages (remember those?) catching strays

But is it smart enough to know it needs to write some Python to count for it?

That ability to create ad hoc tools makes up for a lot of shortfalls.

Just tried on Astra low and it gave 4.

  • I tried too. It got it. Maybe more importantly, who cares?

    For example, I'm a nerd. I'm bad at baseball. I lack that kind of intelligence, even though it's more common than the ability to program. That doesn't also imply that you can't trust my Python code.