I test'ed the number of Ll's in Qwen 3.6 35B.. It required 3 tries
Posted by DashinTheFields@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 4 comments
How many ll's are in Stargate's TV Show's leader?
Reasoning
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The answer depends on which "leader" of the Stargate TV series you're referring to, as command changes throughout the franchise:
- General George Hammond (Seasons 1-3 leader of SG-1/SGC): 0 L's
- Colonel Jack O'Neill (Seasons 4-7 leader): 1 L (in O'Neil)
- Colonel Samantha Carter (Seasons 8-9 leader): 0 L's
- Title ranks like "Colonel" or "General": Each contains 1 L
If you're thinking of the most iconic and longest-serving leader (Jack O'Neill), the answer is 1 L. Let me know if you meant a different character or show in the franchise!
Later on we agreed, but it still took about 3 more questions drilling down to have it read each word.
Edenar@reddit
llm aren't letter counter (they work with "token", not single letters). But you can ask your llm to write a 10 lines Bash script that will do it, you can even tell it to call it with the right tool/terminal access ... And that's the same thing for every non-trivial calculus question, it's not a calculator but you can give it access to one !
vtkayaker@reddit
Yeah, LLMs don't see letters at all, they see multi-letter tokens. Asking them to count letters is like asking someone to count English letters in a text written in hieroglyphs. It's possible, but way harder than it should be.
Ok_Technology_5962@reddit
That or asking a human to count all vertices of the letters in a word "apple". Since we dont normally see that when we write which also depends on font. Im sure most people cant do that in their head
RegularRecipe6175@reddit
Try that, but in English.