Why Your LLM Can't Count the R's in 'Strawberry'
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Ask a state-of-the-art language model a question a six-year-old can answer — how many R's are in "strawberry"? — and there's a decent chance it says two . The answer is three. The model has read more text than any human who has ever lived. It can write working code, explain quantum mechanics, and p…
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- 2026-10-28 02:06 · DEV Community — AI
Why Your LLM Can't Count the R's in 'Strawberry'