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

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

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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.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At first I thought it was talking about "rr" as a Spanish digraph. Not sure how far that lies from the truth, these models are multilingual and multimodal after all. My guess is that it's surfacing the ambiguity of its internal vector for a "token: rr" vs "token: r", though.

Could be interesting to dig deeper... but I think I'm fine with this for now. There are other "curious" behaviors of the chatbot, that have me more intrigued right now. Like, it is self-adapting to any repeated mistakes in the conversation history, but at other times it can come up with surprisingly "complex" status tracking, then present it spontaneously as bullet points with emojis. Not sure what to make out of that one yet.