You don't use IPA for counting the number of letters in words. That would be stupid, and even linguists would laugh at you.

It's still a stupid AI, and it was confidently, and unambiguously, wrong.

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

no, I'm still going to do that.

Just AI being good at math again

A normal human would understand that the question is about the spelling, not the pronunciation.

AI still has a lot to learn.

This is nonsense, you cannot justify this type of errors from a language model. It's just a bunch of words strung together based on probability. This is just an artifact of such a construction, it's all right, don't break your brain on it. The "AI" sure isn't.

I shudder to think how much electricity got wasted so you could get fooled by an LLM into believing nonsense. Let alone the equally-unnecessary followup questions.

Yeah there is a stupid human in this chat but mostly cause they let themselves get tricked by bad logic in order to justify a bad answer.

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.

Oh wow, I didn't think about how many r sounds. But then if you ask it how many ks are in knight, it should say none.

It just goes to show that the AI is not yet superhuman. If it were really smart it would know, as humans can tell at a glance, that there are four r's in strawberry. There's the first one, the two in the double r combination, and then the rr digram itself which counts as a fourth r.

Also ignoring the fact it said one r was in the middle of the word

Kinda remind me of 13yo me, so why not both?