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		itsTyrion 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in... hilarious if true, their "gpt-oss-20b" gets it right - however, it still fails on e.g. the German compound word "Dampfschifffahrt" (Dampf-Schiff-Fahrt, steam-ship-journey/ride) because it assumes it's "ff" not "fff"

lostmsu 4 months ago | [–]

On the second try gpt-oss-20b gave me "The letter b appears once in the word blueberry."

eqvinox 4 months ago | [–]

> because it assumes it's "ff" not "fff"

Funnily enough—and possibly related—this was correct before the German orthography reform of 1996 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of...]

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