Ask Claude or ChatGPT to write it in Python, and you will see what they are capable of. HTML + CSS has never been the strong suit of any of these models.
AI World Clocks
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Re: AI World Clocks
#72These types of tests are fundamentally flawed. I was able to create perfect clock using gemini 2.5 pro - https://gemini.google.com/share/136f07a0fa78
The website is regenerating the clocks every minute. When I opened it, Gemini 2.5 was the only working one. Now, they are all broken. Also, your example is not showing the current time.
It wouldn't be hard to tell to pick up browser time as the default start point. Just a piece of prompt.
Re: AI World Clocks
#73Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
Generate an image of a clock face, but instead of the usual 12 hour numbering, number it with 13 hours.
A normal (ish) 12h clock. It numbered it twice, in two concentric rings. The outer ring is normal, but the inner ring numbers the 4th hour as "IIII" (fine, and a thing that clocks do) and the 8th hour as "VIIII" (wtf).
Re: AI World Clocks
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
LLMs are terrible for out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks. You should use chain of thought suppression and give constaints explictly. My prompt to Grok: --- Follow these rules exactly: - There are 13 hours, labeled 1–13. - There are 13 ticks. - The center of each number is at angle: index * (360/13) - Do not infer anything else. - Do not apply knowledge of normal clocks. Use the following variables: HOUR_COUNT = 13 ANGLE…
Well, that's cheating :) You asked it to generate code, which is ok because it does not represent a direct generated image of a clock. Can grok generate images? What would the result be? I will try your prompt on chatgpt and gemini
Gemini failed miserably - a standard 12 hours clock
Same for chatgpt
And perplexity replaced 12 with 13
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually quite fascinating if you watch it for 5 minutes. Some models are overall bad, but others nail it in one minute and butcher it in the next. It's perhaps the best example I have seen of model drift driven by just small, seemingly unimportant changes to the prompt.
> model drift driven by just small, seemingly unimportant changes to the prompt What changes to the prompt are you referring to? According the comment on the site, the prompt is the following: Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown f…
The time given to the model. So the difference between two generations is just somethng trivially different like: "12:35" vs 12:36"
Re: AI World Clocks
#76Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
LLMs are terrible for out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks. You should use chain of thought suppression and give constaints explictly. My prompt to Grok: --- Follow these rules exactly: - There are 13 hours, labeled 1–13. - There are 13 ticks. - The center of each number is at angle: index * (360/13) - Do not infer anything else. - Do not apply knowledge of normal clocks. Use the following variables: HOUR_COUNT = 13 ANGLE…
> Follow these rules exactly:
"Here's the line-by-line specification of the program I need you to write. Write that program."
Re: AI World Clocks
#77Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
This is really cool. I tried to prompt gemini but every time I got the same picture . I do not know how to share a session (like it is possible with Chatgpt) but the prompts were If a clock had 13 hours, what would be the angle between two of these 13 hours? Generate an image of such a clock No, I want the clock to have 13 distinct hours, with the angle between them as you calculated above This is the same image. The…
This is probably my biggest problem with AI tools, having played around with them more lately.
"You're absolutely right! I made a mistake. I have now comprehensively solved this problem. Here is the corrected output: [totally incorrect output]."
None of them ever seem to have the ability to say "I cannot seem to do this" or "I am uncertain if this is correct, confidence level 25%" The only time they will give up or refuse to do something is when they are deliberately programmed to censor for often dubious "AI safety" reasons. All other times, they come back again and again with extreme confidence as they totally produce garbage output.
Re: AI World Clocks
#78Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
That's because they literally cannot do that. Doing what you're asking requires an understanding of why the numbers on the clock face are where they are and what it would mean if there was an extra hour on the clock (ie that you would have to divide 360 by 13 to begin to understand where the numbers would go). AI models have no concept of anything that's not included in their training data. Yet people continue to ant…
The hope was for this understanding to emerge as the most efficient solution to the next-token prediction problem.
Put another way, it was hoped that once the dataset got rich enough, developing this understanding is actually more efficient for the neural network than memorizing the training data.
The useful question to ask, if you believe the hope is not bearing fruit, is why. Point specifically to the absent data or the flawed assumption being made.
Or more realistically, put in the creative and difficult research work required to discover the answer to that question.
Re: AI World Clocks
#79Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way. I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!
That's because they literally cannot do that. Doing what you're asking requires an understanding of why the numbers on the clock face are where they are and what it would mean if there was an extra hour on the clock (ie that you would have to divide 360 by 13 to begin to understand where the numbers would go). AI models have no concept of anything that's not included in their training data. Yet people continue to ant…
I wonder if you would have more success if you painstakingly described the shape and features of a clock in great detail but never used the words clock or time or anything that might give the AI the hint that they were supposed to output something like a clock.
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#80Why are Deepseek and Kimi are beating other models by so much margin? Is this to do with their specialization for this task?
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