AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
Wow : To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks. That didn’t seem to matter much. It guessed a campsite in Yellowstone to within around 35 miles of the actual location. The program placed another photo, taken on a street in San Francisco, to within a few city blocks. Not every photo was an easy match: The program mistakenly linked one [...]