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megopie@beehaw.org 6 days ago
I asked it how many X’s there are in the word Bordeaux it tells you there are none.
If you ask it how many times X is pronounced in Bordeaux it tells you the x in Bordeaux isn’t pronounced with the word ending in an “o” sound.
If you ask it how many “o”s there are in Bordeaux it tells you there are none 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 5 days 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”:
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” 🤷