The last version to fail on those questions was GPT 4.5.

Meanwhile most humans fail to correctly answer how many f's are in the sentence, "Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of many years.".

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the_gastropod an hour ago | parent [-]

Nooo. I just asked Claude (Sonnet 5 Medium) how many I's are in assassin, and it said 2. Granted, it got several words correct before this. But no, they still aren't great at this letter-counting thing.

	▲	nearbuy 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't think we should count the lower tier models if we're discussing what the top ones are capable of. No one was suggesting that Sonnet is AGI.
	▲	SmashDan 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Anyone know why they aren't good at this?
	▲	steelframe 21 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Meanwhile Qwen3.8 27B got both the 'f's and the 'i's questions right.