Can ChatGPT Learn to Count Letters?
arXiv:2502.16705v12 citationsh-index: 13Computer
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This addresses a specific limitation in LLMs for users needing accurate basic reasoning, but it is incremental as it focuses on a narrow task.
The paper tackled the problem of ChatGPT struggling to count letter occurrences in words, and proposed an efficient solution to enable it to learn this task.
Large language models (LLMs) struggle on simple tasks such as counting the number of occurrences of a letter in a word. In this paper, we investigate if ChatGPT can learn to count letters and propose an efficient solution.