Geoff Brumfiel reports:
A student project has revealed yet another power of artificial intelligence — it can be extremely good at geolocating where photos are taken.
The project, known as Predicting Image Geolocations (or PIGEON, for short) was designed by three Stanford graduate students in order to identify locations on Google Street View.
But when presented with a few personal photos it had never seen before, the program was, in the majority of cases, able to make accurate guesses about where the photos were taken.
Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword…
Read more at NPR.
h/t, Joe Cadillic