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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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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Gemini 3 (Fast) got it right for me; it said that unless I wanna carry my car there it's better to drive, and it suggested that I could use the car to carry cleaning supplies, too.

Edit: A locally run instance of Gemma 2 9B fails spectacularly; it completely disregards the first sentece and recommends that I walk.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

You never know. The car wash may be out of order and you might need to wash your car by hand.

[–] Saterz@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well it is a 9B model after all. Self hosted models become a minimum "intelligent" at 16B parameters. For context the models ran in Google servers are close to 300B parameters models