Gabe SchuylerInteresting article pondering the difference between an AI knowing what all the different times look like on an analog clock face -- versus actually understanding how to tell time. Melting clocks pose a problem, suggesting time-telling might just be good pattern matching rather than a real skill. https://www.unite.ai/ais-struggle-to-read-analogue-clocks-may-have-deeper-significance/
AI’s Struggle to Read Analogue Clocks May Have Deeper Significance
A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of […]