How many e's are in strawberry?

Imustaskforhelp

5:10 AM here, the writing is a bit messy to be honest and not up to my standards but I wished to upload it anyway because I will have some good comments to read when I wake up. So thanks for reading if you have read it! And even if you haven't and have just read this comment, that's completely fine too and honestly I don't know why really, but I want to just say that I love you all and I love this community and yes it has its problems but I love you all and I wish you all to have a nice day/night! Going to go to sleep now. Bye!

andsoitis

Follow-up Q: How many straws? A: One.

bediger4000

This obvious flaw is immaterial. LLMs are entirely adequate for use cases involving financial gain, like spam and phishing emails, marketing and propaganda.

dekhn

What is your point, exactly? You should state it clearly at the start of the post. When I asked gemini, it printed the right answer, and it also had a button: "Show code", which I clicked: word = "strawberry" count = word.lower().count('e') print(f"The number of 'e's in '{word}' is {count}.") Now, the followup (from a comment below): "How many straws in strawberry": there are 0 "straws" (again with the Python code). Similarly, "How many straw in strawberry": 1 straw (again with the Python code, showing it's just trying to do string matching). Next: Q: "When I saw straw, I mean the object you use to drink liquids through. How many straw in strawberry?" A: "While the word strawberry contains the letters to spell "straw" exactly one time, there are zero actual drinking objects inside the fruit. Trying to use a berry as a straw would mostly just result in a very messy snack!"

dankwizard

Dunning-Kruger vibes from this blog post. Look into how LLMs work and it's pretty clear why these character counting scenarios often fail if not invoking Thinking/Python Scripting.