Do you like (AI) clocks?

It's the expected result if your big ol' artificial intelligence wannabe is ultimately just a stochastic word combinator.

if every single token is, at the end, chosen by random dice roll (and they are) then this is exactly what you'd expect.

This is hilariously sad how LLMs aren’t able to be consistent from one prompt to another.

Typically that's configurable. Like for a chatbot, you'd want it to give the same/similar results for a given question, where with a character creator, you might want the results to vary so you can re-run until you get something you like.

Of course that wouldn't be as funny here.

You can click on the button in the top right corner (with a question mark) to have explanations. The clocks are refreshed every minute

gaslight clock

Deepseek has a recognisable clock now and then, too. They both mix up the current time, though.

By far the best, but still off. These three were loaded in the same order as i post them:

Haha, I found myself thinking the same thing, and then caught myself, realizing all the other LLMs on this page had lowered the bar immensely for what I'm considering impressive.

I thought the same and then Kimi K2 came up with a clock that has two 12 and no 11...

qwen 2.5 is absolutely pants on head ridiculous compared to gpt5 when I'm looking at it right now.

So far, I’d give qwen the prize for most artistic impression of a clock.

Kimi K2 appears to consistently get it right.

I don't know if it's actually related, but I've read that asking people to draw a clock face is a simple way to identify some brain problems

Quick screening for dementia, according to this

Edit: I guess this means most of the AI has 'Conceptual Deficits', pretty accurate lol

I'm guessing it's an easy metric to compare benchmarks. "Write a clock".

No JavaScript I think, it's just html and CSS. The initial time is provided in the prompt every minute according to the description. I wonder if they'd be any better if they could use js. Probably not.

"Time is a relative of mine" / Eisenstein

Depends on when you load it. They refresh every minute. In the first one I got, Deepseek's was almost functional, but Haiku had one that was surprisingly good.

I've never seen any of the OpenAI models come up with anything that was more than completely broken.

I thought the same, until it refreshed and it got worse and it refreshed and it was different but still bad. These three were loaded in the order as posted:

The clocks change every minute. I've seen some from deepseek and qwen that looked ok. But kimi seems to be the most consistent

Each model is allowed 2000 tokens to generate its clock. Here is its prompt: 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 formatting.

are you using the same prompt?

Ummm....