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It can’t handle things it’s not trained on very well, or at least not anything substantially different from what it was trained on.
It can usually apply rules it’s trained on to a small corpus of data in its training data. Give me a list of female YA authors. But when you ask it for something more general (how many R’s there are in certain words) it often fails.
It can’t handle things it’s not trained on very well, or at least not anything substantially different from what it was trained on.
It can usually apply rules it’s trained on to a small corpus of data in its training data. Give me a list of female YA authors. But when you ask it for something more general (how many R’s there are in certain words) it often fails.