Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

https://lemmy.world/post/43503268

Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" - Lemmy.World

Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there. Also includes outtakes on the ‘reasoning’ models.

There are a lot of humans that would fail this as well. Just sayin.

They also polled 10,000 people to compare against a human baseline:

Turns out GPT-5 (7/10) answered about as reliably as the average human (71.5%) in this test. Humans still outperform most AI models with this question, but to be fair I expected a far higher “drive” rate.

That 71.5% is still a higher success rate than 48 out of 53 models tested. Only the five 10/10 models and the two 8/10 models outperform the average human. Everything below GPT-5 performs worse than 10,000 people given two buttons and no time to think.

Can they do to samplings for that? One in a city with a decent to good education system. The other in the backwoods out in the middle of nowhere…where family trees are sticks.