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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the strawberry problem? Does it think it's a berry? I wonder why

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the strawberry problem is to ask it how many R's are in strawberry. Current AI gets it wrong almost every time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's because they don't see the letters, but tokens instead. A token can be one letter, but is usually bigger. So what the llm sees might be something like

When seeing it like that it's more obvious why the llm's are struggling with it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ask an LLM how many Rs there are in strawberry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

not a problem limited to llms, they perfectly replicate my stupidity ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For reference Bing chat is still confidently sure there are 2