How Many R's in Strawberry? Your AI Has No Idea Why That's Hard

How Many R's in Strawberry? Your AI Has No Idea Why That's Hard How many R's are in the word "strawberry"? If you ask ChatGPT, there's a decent chance you'll get back a confident "two." Push back, and the model apologizes, says three, and sometimes flips back to two if you keep prodding. It's funny in a very specific way. Here's a system that can write working code in a dozen languages, summarize a legal brief, and walk a six year old through general relativity. But it can't reliably count the R's in a fruit my niece can spell. The reason this happens isn't what most people assume.