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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Every model they've released (after 4) has been seemingly worse than the previous.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (21 children)

they're well at the top of the S-curve and now there's only desperate over-engineering and bolting on special cases left

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still cannot believe that they couldn't special-case count 'R' in "strawberry" for their Strawberry model like what the fuck

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell, I could probably special-case that shit, and I'm barely a programmer.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Update: As a matter of fact, I did. Here's some Python code to prove it:

# Counts how many times a particular letter appears in a string.
# Very basic code, made it just to clown on the AI bubble.

appearances = int(0) # Counts how many times the selected char appears.
sentence = input("Write some shit: ")
sentence_length = len(sentence) # We need to know how long the sentence is for later
character_select = input("Select a character: ") # Your input can be as long as you wish, but only the first char will be taken

chosen_char = chr(ord(character_select[0]))

# Three-line version
for i in range (0, sentence_length):
    if chosen_char in sentence[i]:
        appearances = appearances + 1

# Two-line version (doesn't work - not sure why)
# for chosen_char in sentence:
#     appearances = appearances + 1
# (Tested using "strawberry" as sentence and "r" as character_select. Ended up getting a result of 10 ("strawberry" is 10 chars long BTW))
    
# Finally, print the fucking result
print("Your input contains "+str(appearances)+" appearances of the character ("+character_select+").")

There's probably a bug or two in this I missed, but hey, it still proves I'm more of a programmer than Sam Altman ever will be.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the for x in y statement takes iterable y and assigns a value from it to x per iteration (loop), so what happens is that it's reassigning chosen_char each loop to the next item from the sentence

(sum([x for x in sentence if x == chosen_char]) would be a quick one-liner, presuming one has downcased the sentence and other input/safety checks)

(e: this post was in response to your 2-liner comment in the code)

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