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Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI by coder543 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:01PM (#41059834)
> I don't ask someone how many r's there are in strawberry by spelling out strawberry, I just say the word.

No, I would actually be pretty confident you don’t ask people that question… at all. When is the last time you asked a human that question?

I can’t remember ever having anyone in real life ask me how many r’s are in strawberry. A lot of humans would probably refuse to answer such an off-the-wall and useless question, thus “failing” the test entirely.

A useless benchmark is useless.

In real life, people overwhelmingly do not need LLMs to count occurrences of a certain letter in a word.

Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI by jvm___ on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:52AM (#41070082)
AI being the same as human, while AI fails at a task that any human can easily do means AI isn't human equivalent in an easily demonstrable way.

If full artificial intelligence, as we're being promised, falls short in this simple way.