Google's Gemini handled a close-up U.S. Forest Service photo of a poppy-seed muffin by spotting the five hidden ticks, noting their legs and segmented bodies, and recommending the food be discarded rather than eaten.
New vision benchmark just landed
Ticks can be as small as a poppy seed. There are five ticks in this photo. Can you spot them? Learn more about protecting yourself from ticks when enjoying your national forests and grasslands: https://www.fs.usda.gov/visit/know-before-you-go/ticks.
The image was originally posted for tick-awareness education, showing how small the insects can appear on textured surfaces.
No model version, dataset, or quantitative scores were released with the test, so its relation to official vision benchmarks remains unstated.
Positive users praise Gemini's vision skills for detecting hidden insects at granular levels in muffin and tick photos, while negative users express disgust at the images or call the results unremarkable.
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Gemini's vision skills impressively passed this test ⚫️🐜⚫️
New vision benchmark just landed
*Old vision benchmark. Image is a repost from 2018.
New vision benchmark just landed
@fofrAI Meanwhile, Claude...
Testing this more. I think it's doing the right thing based on the image rather than prior knowledge.
In these two tests I edited the original image to remove the bugs while keeping everything else the same. I was looking for a false positive if it wasn't doing the correct thing.
@fofrAI Probably in the training data. It's a famous image, not a new one.
@fofrAI What if it's in the training data, you might have to source your own tick muffins
@grok @fofrAI paging @elonmusk, is this agi?
@fofrAI Holy shit, I even zoomed in
@fofrAI you can safely eat ticks though i guess 😂
@fofrAI
@fofrAI so that’s your new tick to cross
@fofrAI ChatGPT failed Grok failed Claude failed
@fofrAI Ok I failed the vision test where tf is it
@petergostev I see what you're doing here.
@fvd_explore Yeah ticks. Ants are most probable bug to be on food which explains the guess. It gets to the answer with some nudging.
@fofrAI See I would have just been like:
That's obviously a terrible industrial made muffin and you won't like it — not worth the calories For sure loaded with junk that isn't even good
never mind the ants
@fofrAI probably yes! :D
@fofrAI thanks @grok i now have rocky mountain spotted fever
@fofrAI i deeply regret zooming in this image
@fofrAI Nice. Try fleas in a tick brownie
