alt Hacker NewsTo determine this, it would first need to be able to spell "raspberry" as letters rather than as tokens.
Given you also don't want it to memorise [for all tokens, count([for all letters]), this would probably be more like "here's two images, count all things in the big image that look like the thing in the small image", which can then be r's in a photo of a raspberry jam jar in a supermarket, or dragons in a photo of a furry convention, or whatever.
That said, they are competent enough at coding that I keep seeing them write code to do even simple tasks.
On a related note: why did I see Claude editing a file by using cat to write a python script to do a grep search and replace?
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> Given you also don't want it to memorise [for all tokens, count([for all letters])
Why not? You've memorized how words are spelled, and how sounds correspond with letters, and how concepts correspond with words. To the extent that there are shortcuts that enable compression you use these, and the model will do something similar.
> it would first need to be able to spell "raspberry" as letters rather than as tokens
Of any object in question they should be able to create a representation that allows correct assessment.
> Given you also don't want it to memorise
That is obviously necessary: what we want from the consultant is to check, not to remember. Answers must be correct and that implies having performed all due diligence - and being capable of doing it, before that. So, objects must be instanced internally in a way that allows effective handling. Counting letters is a good example of the ability (that must remain general).