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Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" (opper.ai)
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Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there.

Also includes outtakes on the 'reasoning' models.

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Went to test to google AI first and it says "You cant wash your car at a carwash if it is parked at home, dummy"

Chatgpt and Deepseek says it is dumb to drive cause it is fuel inefficient.

I am honestly surprised that google AI got it right.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 76 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They probably added a system guardrail as soon as they heard about this test. it's been going around for a while now :)

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure Google's AI is fed by the same spider that goes out and finds every new or changed web page (or a variant of that).

As soon as someone writes an article about how AI gets something wrong and provides a solution, that solution is now in the AI's training data.

OTOH, that means it's probably also ingesting a lot of AI generated slop, which causes its own set of problems.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Article mentions that Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite, Gemini 3 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro have passed the test. All these 3 also did it 10 out of 10 times without being wrong. Even Gemini 2.5 shares highest score in the category of "below 6 right answers". Guess, Gemini is the closest to "intelligence" out of a bunch.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

I mean if they fix specific reasoning test answers (like the strawberry one) this doesn't actually make reasoning better tho. It just optimizes for benchmarks

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I've been feeding a bunch of documents I wrote into gemini last week to spit out some scripts for validation I couldn't be arsed to write. It's done a surprisingly comprehensive job and when wrong has been nudged right with just a little abuse..

I'm still all fuck this shit and can't wait for the pop, but for comparison openai was utterly brain dead given the same task. I think I actually made the model worse it was so useless.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

I didn't get it right until people started taking about it.