Visual Enumeration is Challenging for Large-scale Generative AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03328v2
• Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 15:24:20 GMT
• Title: Visual Enumeration is Challenging for Large-scale Generative AI
• Authors: Alberto Testolin, Kuinan Hou, Marco Zorzi,
• Abstract summary: Humans can readily judge the number of objects in a visual scene, even without counting. We investigate whether large-scale generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have a human-like number sense.
• Score: 0.08192907805418582
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Humans can readily judge the number of objects in a visual scene, even without counting, and such a skill has been documented in many animal species and babies prior to language development and formal schooling. Numerical judgments are error-free for small sets, while for larger collections responses become approximate, with variability increasing proportionally to the target number. This response pattern is observed for items of all kinds, despite variation in object features (such as color or shape), suggesting that our visual number sense relies on abstract representations of numerosity. Here, we investigate whether large-scale generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have a human-like number sense, which should allow them to reliably name the number of objects in simple visual stimuli or generate images containing a target number of items in the 1-10 range. Surprisingly, most of the foundation models considered have a poor number sense: They make striking errors even with small numbers, the response variability does not increase in a systematic way, and the pattern of errors depends on object category. Only the most recent proprietary systems exhibit signatures of a visual number sense. Our findings demonstrate that having an intuitive visual understanding of number remains challenging for foundation models, which in turn might be detrimental to the perceptual grounding of numeracy that in humans is crucial for mathematical learning.

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