ChatGPT finally knows how many ‘R’s are in ‘strawberry,’ but confident mistakes remain

Confident mistakes – or lies, if you will – are a common problem of large language models used in AI chatbots, with one common shortcoming of ChatGPT being that it would frequently miscount the number of times the letter “R” appeared in the word “strawberry.” As OpenAI tried to take a victory lap around this, though, plenty of other confident mistakes were pointed out in the replies.

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