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Researchers led by Suketu Patel found that advanced AI systems, including GPT-5, struggled with a classic psychology test called the Stroop task, showing a weakness in sustained focus.
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Suketu Patel, GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5
What
Researchers led by Suketu Patel found that advanced AI systems, including GPT-5, struggled with a classic psychology test called the Stroop task, showing a weakness in sustained focus.
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Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:13:16 GMT · 3h 24m ago
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Why
The AI models increasingly reverted to reading words instead of identifying colors as test lists grew longer, suggesting a fundamental difference in attention mechanisms compared to humans.
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This research highlights that while AI can perform well on many complex tasks, it may have hidden weaknesses when tasks require sustained focus and inhibition of automatic responses over extended periods, which is crucial for future AI integration into daily life.
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