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Why I am not impressed by A.I. (lemmy.world)
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[–] HoofHearted@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

The terrifying thing is everyone criticising the LLM as being poor, however it excelled at the task.

The question asked was how many R in strawbery and it answered. 2.

It also detected the typo and offered the correct spelling.

What’s the issue I’m missing?

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The issue that you are missing is that the AI answered that there is 1 'r' in 'strawbery' even though there are 2 'r's in the misspelled word. And the AI corrected the user with the correct spelling of the word 'strawberry' only to tell the user that there are 2 'r's in that word even though there are 3.

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but for what purpose would you ever ask about the total number of a specific letter in a word? This isn't the gotcha that so many think it is. The LLM answers like it does because it makes perfect sense for someone to ask if a word is spelled with a single or double "r".

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It makes perfect sense if you do mental acrobatics to explain why a wrong answer is actually correct.

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Not mental acrobatics, just common sense.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 points 9 hours ago

Uh oh, you’ve blown your cover, robot sir.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There's also a "r" in the first half of the word, "straw", so it was completely skipping over that r and just focusing on the r's in the word "berry"

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

It wasn't focusing on anything. It was generating text per its training data. There's no logical thought process whatsoever.