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ggreer • today at 2:06 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Your information is out of date by several years. The letter counting issue was due to how LLMs split text input into tokens (usually using BPE). Since 2024, frontier LLMs have used chain-of-thought reasoning to spell out the letters and count them.


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psvv • today at 2:19 AM

My apologies, I got my info from an LLM. I guess they still have a ways to go in understanding current events.

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