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It must be a silent R (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Schal330@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LLMs operate using tokens, not letters. This is expected behavior. A hammer sucks at controlling a computer and that's okay. The issue is the people telling you to use a hammer to operate a computer, not the hammer's inability to do so

[–] Laborer3652@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Claude 3 nailed it on the first try

[–] vcmj@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

It would be luck based for pure LLMs, but now I wonder if the models that can use Python notebooks might be able to code a script to count it. Like its actually possible for an AI to get this answer consistently correct these days.