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		jonnycomputer 56 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in... For what it's worth, it got it right when I tried it. >simple question should be easy for a genius like you. have many letter b's in the word blueberry? ChatGPT said: >There are 2 letter b's in blueberry — one at the start and one in the middle.

JasonBee 56 days ago [–]

To me that makes it worse. Why would two people get wildly different answers to a simple factual observation query.

nostrebored 56 days ago | | [–]

Because of the interplay of how tokenizers work, temperature, and adaptive reasoning? These models aren't fact generators.

vaenaes 56 days ago | | [–]

~stochasticity~

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