[new_user_final]

6 minutes and 48 seconds? Some YouTuber can find the location in 0.1 second. I don't know if those videos are fake.

[SamPatt]

They aren't fake. I'm a Master I level Geoguessr (the penultimate competitive ranking) and what the pros can do is very real.

I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.

It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.

[raincole]

The fact some humans can do that doesn't make it any less impressive to me.

I knew Terence Tao can solve Math Olympia questions and much much much more difficult questions. I was still very impressed by AlphaProof[0].

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

[GaggiX]

Some people are really good at GeoGuessr, but also their best performance are more likely to get views.

If you want a bot that is extremely strong at geoguessr there is this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05845

One forward pass is probably faster than 0.1 second. You can see its performance here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ts5lPDV--cU (rainbolt is a really strong player)

[speedgoose]

If you are a professional geoguessr player, you play so many games that it’s not unrealistic to get very good guesses once in a while.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of cheating is happening.

[cenamus]

Not just cheating, but just lots of meta, from the blurred number plates color/format, to the stitching of the image at the bottom, mounting location of the camera on the google car. There are list which variant of car was used in which countries and so on. Which is still impressive but not quite the same as just guessing from the image

[tiagod]

Geoguessr is different as you can rely on implementation details, such as the camera generation, car, processing, and stuff like a large part of some countries being covered with a dirty spot somewhere in the FOV.

[the_mitsuhiko]

The best geoguessers have been beaten by AI a while back.

[incognito124]

If you mean georainbolt, it's genuine