Posted 12/28/2023, 2:36:55 PM
Stanford Students Develop AI That Can Pinpoint Photo Locations in Seconds, Raising Privacy Concerns
- Stanford students developed an AI called PIGEON that can geolocate a photo within seconds and beat top human players at Geoguessr
- PIGEON was trained on 500,000 Google Street View images and can guess the country of a photo 95% of the time
- It works by recognizing foliage, soil, weather patterns that humans would miss
- Possible uses include assisting biological surveys and identifying downed power lines
- Privacy advocates worry the tech could enable government surveillance or stalking if widely available