An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time ... painstakingly opened and read by mechanical devices based on clocks, which slowly tick and prise the scrolls open millimetre by millimetre.

A team of researchers at Edinburgh University tested some top multimodal large language models to see how well they could ...

Researchers tested various clock designs, including some with Roman numerals, with and without second hands, and different colored dials. Their findings show that AI systems, at best, got clock-hand ...

They struggled with clocks bearing Roman numerals and stylized hands as much as they did with clocks lacking a seconds hand altogether, indicating that the issue may stem from detecting the hands ...

AI can write essays, create art, and even hold conversations, but when it comes to telling time or reading a calendar, it ...