TechRadar OpenAI’s ChatGPT announced on April 28, 2026 that it could correctly count the three “r” letters in “strawberry,” a task that has long stumped language models. Within minutes, users demonstrated the bot still miscounted “cranberry,” reporting only one “r” instead of two. Tests of the same model on a classic “car‑wash” reasoning question also showed mixed results, with some competitors flagging the logical flaw that the model missed. The episode highlights both progress and lingering gaps in AI’s handling of simple counting and contextual reasoning.
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