AI o3 model debuts with uncanny photo location skills
April 26, 2025, 9:20 am
Two stories detail a fascinating demonstration where the AI model o3 analyzes and accurately guesses a photo’s location. The experiment combines technical wizardry with a hint of dystopian amusement as observers marvel at technology that feels straight out of a sci-fi plot.
We've been seeing if the latest versions of LLMs are any better at geolocating and chronolocating images, and they've improved dramatically since we last tested them in 2023. [...] Before anyone worries about it taking our job, I see it more as the difference between a hand whisk and an electric...
My post on o3 guessing locations from photos made it to Hacker News and by far the most interesting comments are from SamPatt, a self-described competitive GeoGuessr player. In a thread about meta-knowledge of the StreetView card uses in different regions: The photography matters a great deal -...
OpenAI released two powerful reasoning models a few days ago that make ChatGPT even more impressive. These are o3 and o4-mini that you can test … The post I used fake ChatGPT images to fool o3’s amazing photo location capability, and the AI still blew my mind appeared first on BGR.
Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It's a cross between the Enhance Button and Omniscient Database TV Tropes. The process is simple. Snap a photograph of somewhere, ideally without putting any...
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