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> even the number of letters in words.

This one isn't surprising at all: it doesn't deal with letters, but symbols. It only indirectly knows about spelling.

> In contrast, its ability to explain grammar is terrible. It misidentifies parts of speech, singulars and plurals, the subjects and objects of verbs,

I wonder if this is an area where having to generate word-by-word an immediate final answer immediately is killing it, and if it could be induced to "diagram" a sentence first and get a correct answer. Can you give me an example of the query you're asking?



> This one isn't surprising at all: it doesn't deal with letters, but symbols.

It’s not surprising to us now. It was very surprising to me when I first noticed it, as it contrasted sharply with ChatGPT’s ability to explain aspects of language that seem to us humans as being much more difficult, particularly word meaning.

> Can you give me an example of the query you're asking?

I have to admit that all of my testing of its grammar-explaining ability was done last December. I have repeated a few of those tests now with GPT-4, and it did fine [1].

[1] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/explaininggrammar.h...


>I have to admit that all of my testing of its grammar-explaining ability was done last December. I have repeated a few of those tests now with GPT-4, and it did fine [1].

A tale as old as time in this space! I appreciate you checking it again. They are improving so fast.




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