I think the conclusion of the paper is far more mundane. It's curious that VLM can recognize complex novel objects in a trained category, but cannot perform bas

I think the conclusion of the paper is far more mundane. It's curious that VLM can recognize complex novel objects in a trained category, but cannot perform basic visual tasks that human toddlers can perform (e.g. recognizing when two lines intersect or when two circles overlap). Nevertheless I'm sure these models can explain in great detail what intersecting lines are, and even what they look like. So while LLMs might have image processing capabilities, they clearly do not see the way humans see. That, I think, would be a more apt title for their abstract.