Google’s New AI Has “Superhuman” Ability To Locate Where Your Image Was Taken

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Google/Tobias Weyand et al.

If you’ve ever played the game GeoGuessr, you’ll know how hard it is to locate somewhere purely by an image. The online game plonks you in a random location on Google Street View and it’s your job to determine where you are anywhere in the world only using the visible clues. But even as spatial creatures, us humans find it hard to tell our Australian outback from our South African bush.