Here’s my guess, aside from highlighted token issues:
We all know LLMs train on human-generated data. And when we ask something like “how many R’s” or “how many L’s” is in a given word, we don’t mean to count them all - we normally mean something like “how many consecutive letters there are, so I could spell it right”.
Yes, the word “strawberry” has 3 R’s. But what most people are interested in is whether it is “strawberry” or “strawbery”, and their “how many R’s” refers to this exactly, not the entire word.
But to be fair, as people we would not ask “how many Rs does strawberry have”, but “with how many Rs do you spell strawberry” or “do you spell strawberry with 1 R or 2 Rs”
Here’s my guess, aside from highlighted token issues:
We all know LLMs train on human-generated data. And when we ask something like “how many R’s” or “how many L’s” is in a given word, we don’t mean to count them all - we normally mean something like “how many consecutive letters there are, so I could spell it right”.
Yes, the word “strawberry” has 3 R’s. But what most people are interested in is whether it is “strawberry” or “strawbery”, and their “how many R’s” refers to this exactly, not the entire word.
But to be fair, as people we would not ask “how many Rs does strawberry have”, but “with how many Rs do you spell strawberry” or “do you spell strawberry with 1 R or 2 Rs”