or MLLMs — could only read analog clock faces a pitiful 25 percent of the time. In a paper that's awaiting peer review, the AI informatics researchers explained that Google's Gemini was the ...

Most of us learn to read digital clocks first, which display the time in obvious numbers. Analog clocks are often learned later, with the hands taking our young brains a little longer to figure out.

And you get a clock at the end of it! [hamblin.joe] wanted to do a simple project for kids along these lines, so whipped up a neat design using analog meters to display the time. The build relies ...