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I am not dismissing anything.

But if a model is built to be insensitive to something by design, it isn't a good indicator of its overall capabilities. In fact, it is uniquely poor at testing its capabilities.

I suggest you really try and count the red retina cells that are firing in your field of vision right now.

Or, instead of looking at text, count the e's while someone is talking to you. NOTE: you know how to spell. But try it... Then consider why you can't.

On the other hand, give a text file to a model, and it can count the e's easily. The same information is now in a stable form it can operate on with its higher level functioning.

Who do models and humans have preprocessing layers that strip so much information away? To greatly reduce the cost of operating on information for most purposes - while making other types of operation impossible. When it is presented that way.



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