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Most look like they were done by a beginner programmer on crack, but every once in a while a correct one appears.

It's interesting how drawing a clock is one of the primary signals for dementia. https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-clock-drawing-test-98619

This is very interesting, thank you.

I could not get to the store because of the cookie banner that does not work (at left on mobile chrome and ff). The Internet Archive page: https://archive.ph/qz4ep

I wonder how this test could be modified for people that have neurological problems - my father's hands shake a lot but I would like to try the test on him (I do not have suspicions, just curious).

I passed it :)

"One variation of the test is to provide the person with a blank piece of paper and ask them to draw a clock showing 10 minutes after 11. The word "hands" is not used to avoid giving clues."

Hmm, ambiguity. I would be the smart ass that drew a digital clock for them, or a shaku-dokei.

DeepSeek and Kimi seem to have correct ones most of the time I've looked.

DeepSeek told me that it cannot generate pictures and suggested code (which is very different)

yes, and sometimes Grok.

The hour hand commonly seems off on Grok.

I'd say more like a blind programmer in the early stages of dementia. Able to write code, unable to form a mental image of what it would render as and can't see the final result.

If they can identify which one is correct, then it's the same as always being correct, just with an expensive compute budget.

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