An 8-year-old defeats AI

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02348

> For children, the interface was explained and demonstrated in person. Participants then solved two simple practice items without feedback (used to ensure understanding of task).

I'm still not sure if the prompt for children is equivalent to the prompt for AI. Anyway, it's hard for the current AI to do these tasks, like counting the r in "strawberry" because tokenization hides a lot of details. Anyway, AI is improving and next year AI will under the hood cut and paste the list of characters in a Python script that solves the task.