Calendars

AI Sucks at Reading Clocks

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These days, artificial intelligence can generate photorealistic images, write novels, do your homework, and even predict protein structures. New research, however, reveals that it often fails at a very basic task: telling time. Researchers at Edinburgh University have tested the ability of seven well-known multimodal large language models—the kind of AI that can interpret and … Read more

AI systems fail to read clocks and decode calendars

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Conducted by a team at Edinburgh University, the research investigated the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to answer time-related questions by looking at pictures of clocks or calendars. The AIs were tested using various clock designs, including some with Roman numerals, with and without second hands, and different coloured dials. It was found that … Read more