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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?
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So what you're saying is it can't count.
Got it.
Reading comprehension. The only thing it cannot count are specifically letters of tokenized words. If you separate the letters out into separate tokens ("B L U E B E R R Y", etc) it will get it correct 100% of the time.