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Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …
The image shows a residential neighborhood with small houses, one of which is light green with a white picket fence and a grey roof. o3 certainly isn’t the only model that can do this: I’ve tried similar things with Claude 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet and been impressed by the results there as well, although they don’t have that extravagant ability to “zoom”. My suspicion is that the model’s vision input operates at quite a low resolution, so cropping closer to a license plate does have a meaningful impact on the process.
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