Technology

39850 readers

436 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

gyrfalcon@beehaw.org

rs5th@beehaw.org

coldredlight@beehaw.org

SemioticStandard@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social

remington@beehaw.org

-47

How many r are there in strawberry? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by jarfil@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just got schooled by an AI.

According to Wiktionary:

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

...there are indeed only two /ɹ/ in strawberry.

So much for dissing on AIs for not being able to count.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I asked it how many X’s there are in the word Bordeaux it told me there are none.

I asked it how many times X is pronounced in Bordeaux it told me the x in Bordeaux isn’t pronounced with the word ending in an “o” sound.

I asked it how many “o” there are in Bordeaux it told me there are no o in Bordeaux.

So, is it counting the sounds made in the word? Or is it counting the letters? Or is it doing none of the above and just giving a probabilistic output based on an existing corpus of language, without any thought or concepts.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Yes, no, both... and all other interpretations... all at once.

With any ambiguity in a prompt, it assumes a "blend" of all the possible interpretations, then responds using them all over the place.

In the case of "Bordeaux":

It's pronounced "bor-DOH", with the emphasis on the second syllable and a silent "x."

So... depending on how you squint: there is no "o", no "x", only a "bor" and a "doh", with a "silent x", and ending in an "oh like o".

Perfectly "logical" 🤷