Copilot may be a stupid LLM but the human in the screenshot used an apostrophe to pluralize which, in my opinion, is an even more egregious offense.

It's incorrect to pluralizing letters, numbers, acronyms, or decades with apostrophes in English. I will now pass the pedant stick to the next person in line.

Plenty of fun to be had with LLMs.

Stwawberry

The T in "ninja" is silent. Silent and invisible.

“Create a python script to count the number of r characters are present in the string strawberry.”

The number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry' is: 2

Welp, it's reached my level of intelligence.

This is hardly programmer humor… there is probably an infinite amount of wrong responses by LLMs, which is not surprising at all.

I was curious if (since these are statistical models and not actually counting letters) maybe this or something like it is a common "gotcha" question used as a meme on social media. So I did a search on DDG and it also has an AI now which turned up an interestingly more nuanced answer.

It's picked up on discussions specifically about this problem in chats about other AI! The ouroboros is feeding well! I figure this is also why they overcorrect to 4 if you ask them about "strawberries", trying to anticipate a common gotcha answer to further riddling.

DDG correctly handled "strawberries" interestingly, with the same linked sources. Perhaps their word-stemmer does a better job?

5% of the times it works every time.

"it is possible to train 8 days a week."

-- that one ai bot google made

Ladies and gentlemen: The Future.

Q: "How many r are there in strawberry?"

A: "This question is usually answered by giving a number, so here's a number: 632. Mission complete."

It can also help you with medical advice.

There ARE two "R"s in strawberry.

There's also a third one, but you can't have three without having two.

Boy, your face is red like a strawbrerry.

Jesus hallucinatin' christ on a glitchy mainframe.

I'm assuming it's real though it may not be but - seriously, this is spellcheck. You know how long we've had spellcheck? Over two hundred years.

This? This is what's thrown the tech markets into chaos? This garbage?

Fuck.

Using a token predictor to do sub-token analysis produces bad results?!?! Shocking Wow great content

"strawberry".split('').filter(c => c === 'r').length

maybe it’s using the british pronunciation of “strawbry”

There’s a simple explanation: LLMs are “R” agnostic because they were specifically trained to not sail the high seas

Garbage in, garbage out. Keep feeding it shit data, expect shit answers.