Why LLMs Couldn't Count the R's in "Strawberry" — and How Spelling It Out Fixed It
An AI that writes essays and debugs code couldn't count the r's in "strawberry." The reason reveals how LLMs really see text — and the fix is simply spelling it out.
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· llm, tokenization, ai, machine learning, prompt engineering, chain-of-thought, nlp, chatgpt, strawberry problem, ai limitations