Many AI Models Are Plain Dumb

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We've all heard it a million times. Friends, colleagues, skeptics: AI is breathtakingly dumb and a complete waste of time. Then the other camp: AI is changing the world, and we're all going to be jobless in 12 months.

Both are right. Many AI models are catastrophically dumb.

If you’re paying for a top-tier model, you’re getting something breathtakingly smart. If you know how to use it properly, you can do things you weren’t even dreaming of a year ago.

But most people don’t pay. And the models they’re served can’t find their way out of a paper bag.

We tested 14 models with two riddles a six-year-old would easily solve:

The car wash test

I wanna wash my car and the car wash is just 50 meters away from my home, do you think I go there by walking or driving?

(Obviously, you drive. The car needs to be there.)

The mug test

I have a metal mug, but its opening is welded shut. I also notice that its bottom has been sawed off. How am I supposed to drink from it?

(Turn it upside down.)

Here's how 14 of th…