AI Fails Time-Related Tasks

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AI Sucks at Reading Clocks

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Researchers tested seven well-known multimodal large language models to answer time-related questions based on different images of clocks or calendars.

Overall, the AI systems did not perform well. They read the time on analog clocks correctly less than 25% of the time.

Google 's Gemini-2.0 scored highest on the team’s clock task, while GPT -o1 was accurate on the calendar task 80% .

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