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AI Still Can't Tell Time: New Study Shows Top Models Struggle with Basic Clock Reading

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Overview

  • Research evaluates multimodal LLMs' ability to understand time from visual clocks and calendars
  • Tests conducted on leading models like GPT-4V and Claude-3
  • Models show significant challenges in temporal reasoning
  • Performance varies across different time-related tasks
  • Study reveals gaps in visual time understanding capabilities

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Time is fundamental to how we organize our lives, yet artificial intelligence systems struggle to understand it visually. This research examines how well advanced AI models can read clocks and calendars - a task that seems simple to humans but proves surprisingly difficult for ...

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