AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 10h ago6/10
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Can VLM Agents Tell Who They Are at All?
Researchers introduced a benchmark testing whether vision-language model (VLM) agents can recognize themselves in mirrors, a cognitive capability that emerges only in some animal species. Results show self-identification through reflection occurs mainly in stronger VLMs, while weaker models fail to extract self-relevant information despite viewing their reflections, revealing that language-based self-reference alone does not guarantee grounded self-understanding.