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Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI by jcheng on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:58PM (#41060552)
GPT-4o-mini consistently gives me this:

> How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The letter "r" appears 2 times in the word "strawberry."

But also:

> How many occurrences of the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The word "strawberry" contains three occurrences of the letter "r."

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Re:Large Enough – Mistral AI by brandall10 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @04:39PM (#41061785)
Neither phrase is causing the LLM to evaluate the word itself, it just helps focus toward parts of the training data.

Using more 'erudite' speech is a good technique to help focus an LLM on training data from folks with a higher education level.

Using simpler speech opens up the floodgates more toward the general populous.

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