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by mewpmewp2 905 days ago
But by the way, when you are criticising GPT's ability to count words in the sentences you are saying, that is quite odd to me. Because the input that GPT receives is actually tokens, not the words you give it.

So then imagine if someone asked you a question in English, and then translated it to hieroglyphs, and you didn't know English. Would you be able to count how many words were there in the original English?

So it seems weird to expect that GPT would be able to count in the first place.

But however if it later was taught how many words the combination of different tokens yielded to, it would be able to do that. So perhaps this is what was taught to it meanwhile yielding in that better ability to count words?