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Can ChatGPT Learn to Count Letters?

Computation and Language 2025-02-25 v1 Artificial Intelligence

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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@article{arxiv.2502.16705,
  title  = {Can ChatGPT Learn to Count Letters?},
  author = {Javier Conde and Gonzalo Martínez and Pedro Reviriego and Zhen Gao and Shanshan Liu and Fabrizio Lombardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16705},
  year   = {2025}
}
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