Can a super-smart AI beat a 3-year-old?
Here's a surprise: you learned to see long before you learned to talk! Scientists built a puzzle book called BabyVision to check if AI can see the way kids do. Grown-ups score 94.1 out of 100. The smartest AI in the world? Only 49.7 — a 6-year-old beats it!
Why does AI get stuck? It's amazing with words, so it uses words to hide that it isn't so good at looking. How do you get better at anything? Practice! That's what Tidel makes: thousands of picture puzzles, each with the right answer and all the thinking steps written out by a real person — so AI can finally learn to see.
Here are six puzzles from our collection. Try each one before you peek at the answer — we bet you'll solve them in seconds! Now here's the amazing part: the world's smartest AI models get puzzles like these wrong all the time. Ready to beat a supercomputer?
One of these pictures is not like the others! Which one is different? (Answer as row-column, counting from the top left.)
Look at the monkey on the left. Which shadow on the right matches it?
How many of each of the two little pictures at the top are hiding in the big picture? Don't count the examples!
A little chick is lost in the maze! Which of the three paths leads to the bunny?
A piece of the picture is missing! Which of the three choices fits the empty spot?
Fill the empty spots A–D so that no picture repeats in any row or column.
Time to check the scores! Grown-ups get about 94 out of 100 on the full puzzle test. Now look at the AI scores below. See the big gap between the dark bar and the blue bars? Even the best AI can't keep up with a 6-year-old. That gap is exactly what we help fix.
The scientists found four "seeing skills" where AI gets confused. Our puzzles give AI practice in all four! Read them below — which one do you think is the hardest?
Spotting tiny differences
Can you find the one leopard facing the wrong way in a crowd of leopards? You can — AI often can't! When a picture gets busy, AI loses the little details, like losing one sock in a giant laundry pile.
Following lines and paths
Trace a maze with your finger — easy, right? AI gets lost after just a few twists and turns, like dropping the thread in a big tangle of string. Every maze here proves it.
Spinning shapes in your head
Which puzzle piece fits the hole? You can flip and turn shapes in your imagination. AI struggles to picture a shape any way except exactly how it's drawn on the page.
Finding the pattern
Red, blue, red, blue… what comes next? Easy for you! But AI often makes up its own rule instead of reading the real one — like guessing the end of a story without reading the middle.
How did you learn tricky things? Someone showed you how — step by step! Every Tidel sample is a full lesson: a puzzle, the right answer, and all the thinking steps written out by a real person — like a friend explaining their homework out loud. Try it yourself below: solve the puzzle first, then open the thinking one step at a time. Did you think the same way? There are two levels — A is picture puzzles anyone can try, and B is school problems for bigger kids, with real math and science diagrams.
Need more? We make thousands and thousands of these — mixed just the way you want, by grade, by subject, or by puzzle type. The 110 here are only a taste!
Every thinking step can be checked on its own, and our team reviews each one. More than 95 out of every 100 samples pass the quality test.
You only pay for the samples that pass. Want puzzles that practice one special seeing skill from the four above? Just ask us!