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AI models can't tell time or read a calendar, study reveals
Challenges in visual and spatial processing and a deficit in training data have revealed a surprising lack of timekeeping ability in AI systems
AI may be able to write code, generate lifelike images, create human-sounding text and even pass exams ( to varying degrees of success) yet it routinely misinterprets the position of hands on everyday clocks and fails at the basic arithmetic needed for calendar dates. Our findings highlight a significant gap in the ability of AI to carry out what are quite basic skills for people," study lead author Rohit Saxena, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. To investigate AI's timekeeping abilities, the researchers fed a custom dataset of clock and calendar images into various multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which can process visual as well as textual information.
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