Believe it or not, the name Strawberry does not come from the “How many r’s are in strawberry” meme. We just chose a random word. As far as we know it was a complete coincidence.
(Nor, given what is described of GPT-4 o1 in the release, can I see any way in which it could be a reference to either strawberry problem. Although it does often solve the BPE-related letter-counting problem for ‘strawberry’ specifically, it doesn’t do so perfectly nor does it solve other BPE-related problems.)
I meant this strawberry problem.
Alright, well, it probably isn’t a reference to that either, because OA’s Noam Brown now says post-o1-release that it was an arbitrary codename which doesn’t refer to anything: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1834312400419652079
(Nor, given what is described of GPT-4 o1 in the release, can I see any way in which it could be a reference to either strawberry problem. Although it does often solve the BPE-related letter-counting problem for ‘strawberry’ specifically, it doesn’t do so perfectly nor does it solve other BPE-related problems.)