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do you really think that an architecture that struggles to count r in strawberry is a good choice for proofreading? It perceives words very differently from us.
by shmel 1y ago
do you really think that an architecture that struggles to count r in strawberry is a good choice for proofreading? It perceives words very differently from us.
- maoberlehner 1y agoYes, actually I think it works really well for me considering that I’m not a native speaker and one thing I’m after is correcting technical correct but non-idiomatic wording.
- simonw 1y agoCounting letters in words and identifying when words are misspelled are two different tasks - it can be good at one and bad at the other. Interestingly, spell checking is something models have been surprisingly bad at in the past - I remember being shocked at how bad Claude 3 was at spotting typos. This has changed with Claude 4 and o3 from what I've seen - another example of incremental model improvements swinging over a line in terms of things they can now be useful for.
- slagsnag 1y agoShill harder, Simon! Otherwise they may refuse to ask you back for their next PR chucklefest.
- simonw 1y agoWasn't expecting a "you're a shill" accusation to show up on a comment where I say that LLMs used to suck at spell check but now they can just about do it.
- gnowlescentic 1y agoSo 2 trillion dollars to do what Word could do in 1995... and trying to promote that as an advancement is not propaganda? Sure let's double the amount of resources a couple more times who knows what it will be able to take on after mastering spelling.