AI models can't tell time or read a calendar, study reveals

I think it would be better to link to the original study [0] instead of a blog post about it.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05092

Interestingly, one of the suggestions for people who want to have lucid dreams (and I have tested it) is to look at a clock. In a dream it will either be nonsense or unverifiable.

They have trouble keeping track of the day of the week as well. I chat with one every evening, going over my next day's schedule. It loses track of what day it is pretty much daily.

I found out fairly quickly. I had a little argument about what time it was in London. I had supposed that time-zone conversion would not be a problem. However, LLMs are knowledge-bases frozen in time, trained up on a certain corpus of material and then isolated, and it was beyond their competence to actually know the current time-of-day. Sure enough, various answers were given that did not really correlate to anyone's time of day, much less correct time zones.