6 minutes and 48 seconds?
Some YouTuber can find the location in 0.1 second. I don't know if those videos are fake.
I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.
It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.
I knew Terence Tao can solve Math Olympia questions and much much much more difficult questions. I was still very impressed by AlphaProof[0].
[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...
If you want a bot that is extremely strong at geoguessr there is this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05845
One forward pass is probably faster than 0.1 second. You can see its performance here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ts5lPDV--cU (rainbolt is a really strong player)
But I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of cheating is happening.
Every attribute is of importance. A PhD put you in a 1-3% pool. What data do you have, what is needed to hit a certain goal. Data Science can be considered wizardry when exercised on seemingly innocent and mundane things like a photo.