OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

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OpenAI has created a new model that could represent a major leap forward in its ability to reason. It’s called Strawberry. Here’s why:

If you ask ChatGPT how many “r”s are in the word “strawberry,” it famously fails miserably:

This occurs for two reasons. The first is that ChatGPT doesn’t actually see the word “strawberry.” Instead, it translates “strawberry” into an AI-readable language that represents words, not with letters, but with long strings of numbers. There’s no way for ChatGPT to count the number of letters in “strawberry.” It doesn’t see letters because of the way it’s built.

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