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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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712 points trymas | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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peripitea ◴[20 Apr 25 06:53 UTC] No.43742005[source]▶
Tried plugging it into the new o3 model out of curiosity and it got 0.2, i.e. it got everything exactly right save for one that it missed by a year.
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delusional ◴[20 Apr 25 08:03 UTC] No.43742292[source]▶
You know, there are easier ways to cheat at the game? The photos are from the internet, a reverse image search will surface all of them.
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mr_mitm ◴[20 Apr 25 08:12 UTC] No.43742325[source]▶
I read it as more of an experiment to gauge the capabilities of AI than an attempt at cheating.

I'm impressed that AI is that good.

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codetrotter ◴[20 Apr 25 08:33 UTC] No.43742413[source]▶
Is it good, or are those photos already in the training data that the model was trained on?

Would be interesting to see how well it would fare on five photos from different years, using pictures that have never previously been uploaded anywhere.

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calmoo ◴[20 Apr 25 23:24 UTC] No.43747296[source]▶
I would bet it would still do well. You can give a frontier LLM photos that it has never seen before and it will reason about them incredibly accurately, since is is trained on, well, a lot of other similar photos. You can easily try it yourself, give o3 a photo you have taken yourself of a random place, it will crop, zoom and analyze different sections of the photo until it gets most of the time the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken.
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1. codetrotter ◴[21 Apr 25 08:47 UTC] No.43749675[source]▶
> it will crop, zoom and analyze different sections of the photo until it gets most of the time the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken.

I will give it a try myself too. But all my photos that I take with my iPhone have date and GPS location embedded in the metadata so I will first have to transfer the pictures to my computer and strip them of metadata.

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2. peripitea ◴[21 Apr 25 20:26 UTC] No.43756098[source]▶
You can just take a screenshot of them. Not the cleanest way to do it but probably the fastest if you don't already have special tools on your phone.