Could AI one day replace human jobs? While that remains a topic of debate, there’s one thing AI still struggles with: spelling the word “strawberry.”
Recent social media posts highlight a recurring issue with advanced AI text generators like ChatGPT and Claude: they often miscalculate basic spelling tasks, such as counting the number of times the letter “r” appears in “strawberry.” This error underscores a fundamental difference between how AI models and humans process information.
Generative AI, including both diffusion models and large language models (LLMs), frequently errs in spelling and solving letter-based puzzles. The core of the problem lies in the fact that these systems don’t understand letters in the same way humans do. Instead of analyzing words letter by letter, AI models operate based on patterns and statistical probabilities, which can lead to such spelling mistakes.
Understanding why AI continues to struggle with spelling reveals much about the differences between human cognition and machine learning processes.
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