teaching chatgpt to count
https://sergiocastro.substack.com/p/why-cant-chatgpt-count
Edited "think" to "count"
April 1st, 2023 If you use ChatGPT enough, you soon may realize it’s really bad at counting. And not only counting, but math in general.Thanks for reading Dr. Sergio Castro's Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. To understand its counting capabilities, I ran an experiment. I created a Python script that generates strings of random words, starting with one word, then 2, then 3, etc., and asked, via de API, GTP 3.5 to count how many words there are. Here’s a screenshot of the output. The first number after each string is the actual number of words; the second number is GPT’s count, and the third number is the difference between the two. (These tests where run using GPT 3.5, on March 13th, 2023)