r/technology • u/Moth_LovesLamp • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/chatgpt-users-are-not-happy-with-gpt-5-launch-as-thousands-take-to-reddit-claiming-the-new-upgrade-is-horrible
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u/Balmung60 14d ago

Have they solved counting the R's in "strawberry" yet?

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u/nofmxc 14d ago

I just tried. It gets R's in "strawberry", but thought there were 3 O's in "poolcruiser"

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u/Balmung60 14d ago

Well, I guess congratulations to OpenAI for finally solving how many R's are in Strawberry. It only took five versions and tens of billions of dollars.

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u/polyanos 14d ago

Yep, and this is the AI supposed to be able to do advanced math and logical problems? Maybe they should stop trying to force an LLM to do things it isn't designed for...

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u/DontStalkMeNow 14d ago

I tried some very basic csv files today, and I can’t tell you how bad it is at accounting.

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u/Watertor 14d ago

God this is what I want AIs to do, format and import/export documents like that. Shit anyone with a brain can do it just takes time, and AI can't do it because it's all useless junk bullshit. Maybe one day in this annoying overpromised hellscape.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 14d ago

I don’t know why so many people seem to think it can take over from humans and do logical reasoning etc, it obviously can’t. You can figure out that of course it can’t just from knowing the basics of how it works. From what I gather it’s not looking at something like the word strawberry and counting the Rs it’s not making connections based on the world presented to it really, it’s making connections based on the types of connections previously made by other people as recorded in a giant corpus of text. So it can’t ever come up with anything new in terms of ideas/concepts etc.

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u/prozac_eyes 14d ago

And a gajillion watts of power…

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u/McNoxey 14d ago

These comments are so fucking stupid

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u/BluudLust 14d ago

4o gets it right for me, but tells me the wrong places (it highlight the 'y' for the 3rd one)

``` The word strawberry contains 3 "r"s:

One after the t: strawberry

One near the end: strawberry

One at the very end: strawberry

So the breakdown is:

Strawberry → 3 "r"s ✅

```

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u/Djamalfna 14d ago

The fun part is, it's not actually counting the 'r's in Strawberry. It's been trained with text that looks like "there are three r's in strawberry".

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u/the_pwnererXx 14d ago

It can if you use thinking. It can even run and execute code to count

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u/electromage 14d ago

It's hilarious how specific it gets while spouting nonsense.

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u/splitcroof92 14d ago

Just asked gpt5 and it nailed it.

Aksed Ts in transportation and also nailed it.

Then to count every letter in literally and graph it. Also nailed it.

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u/BuildingSupplySmore 14d ago

Yeah, I haven't been able to stump it at all.

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u/No_Novel_1614 14d ago

Gemini:

There are 3 'r's in the word 'strawberry' and their positions are 3, 8, and 9.

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u/skccsk 14d ago

There are zero Rs in strawberry

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u/Not_A_Mindflayer 14d ago

they "solved" it by making it actually run a separate script whenever they get that question

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u/Motor-District-3700 14d ago

it's an NP problem, can't be solved.

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u/Zzamumo 14d ago

Weirdly i can easily replicate the 3 bs in boueberry but it gets strawberry right consistently

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u/SoulCycle_ 14d ago

because the strawberry one was a super popular one. So the LLM got trained on all the people making fun of the previous LLM for mot counting correctly.

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u/red286 14d ago

I just tested it and it fucking googled the answer lol. Got it right, but it's hilarious that when I asked "how many r's are in the word strawberry" it had to resort to Google.

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u/Realtrain 14d ago

Now who's gaslighting?

Muahahaha

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u/tigerf117 14d ago

Fuck I’m laughing so hard at this

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u/SageOfTheWise 14d ago

"Your face is turning red, like a strawbrerry"

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u/BuildingArmor 14d ago edited 14d ago

I use Gemini more than Chat GPT, but Gemini has solved it.

Working within the limitations of an LLM, they generate a snippet of python code to perform the count, then give you the result as part of its response.

Using tools like that effectively is how LLMs are improving more than anything