Computer Science
Ask a chatbot how many r's are in \"strawberry\". It struggles because it has never seen a letter
20 Sept 2026 · 8 min read
A model that can discuss differential equations will miscount the letters in a common word. That is not a gap in its reasoning — it is a consequence of the vocabulary that was fixed before training began, and the same choice makes Hindi several times more expensive to process than English.
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