Can ChatGPT Learn to Count Letters?
Javier Conde, Gonzalo Mart\'inez, Pedro Reviriego, Zhen Gao, Shanshan, Liu, Fabrizio Lombardi
TL;DR
This paper explores whether ChatGPT can learn to accurately count the number of specific letters in words, addressing a simple yet challenging task for large language models.
Contribution
The study proposes an effective method for enabling ChatGPT to learn letter counting, improving its performance on this basic task.
Findings
ChatGPT can be trained to count letters with high accuracy.
The proposed method outperforms baseline approaches.
Letter counting capability enhances LLM utility in text analysis.
Abstract
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.
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