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karlding | 10 months ago

If you watch the video, (one of) the reasons why the AI was winning was because it was using “meta” information from the Street View camera images, and not necessarily because it’s successfully identifying locations purely based on the landmarks in the image.

> I realized that the AI was using the smudges on the camera to help make an educated guess here.

[0] https://youtu.be/ts5lPDV--cU?t=1412

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ApolloFortyNine|10 months ago

Pro geoguessr players do the same thing. The vividness of the colors and weirdness in the sky are two examples I've seen Rainbolt use in the past (and he's not even the best).

ZeWaka|10 months ago

Meta is widely used by humans. One funny one is the different hiding-masks for the different streetview cars.