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by TrueGeek 806 days ago
Last night we tried ChatGPT to see what we could change the “Welcome {MyFamily} Name” at our AirBnB to say.

ChatGPT 3.5 gave suggestions where most of the options needed letters we didn’t have.

ChatGPT 4 took a very long time and then apologized and said it was trying to loop over the letters but it couldn’t verify if they were real words because it didn’t have a dictionary.

Multiple tries returned the exact same results each time.

I’d hate to do this with Legos and then be missing parts part way through!

2 comments

Counter intuitively, language models aren't good with letters and string manipulation. It probably has to do with tokens being a few letters and the lack of those tasks in their dataset.