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Re: Chronophoto

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Post by system2 » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:00 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #97

system2 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would be the help of this game to ai?

Potentially, it might help find errors in the existing year-labeling - either via recognizing cases where guessers have wide divergences with a certain bias, or the explicit avenue via the about (email with errors). Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place it at certain times, by human perception. That might help tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras to avoid anachronisms, o…

Pretty far fetched. The date of the photos are known so ai's only intention would be to find out if humans suck at guessing or not. Which would be a useless data to improve the systems.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by thinking4real » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:00 AM UTC

tobr wrote: post #25

Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.

Disagree, it’s just a matter of analyzing each decade precisely

Thought often the pictures are not a great representation of the time they convey :/

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by tcmb » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:12 AM UTC

Would be interesting if all pictures were black and white, irrespective of when they were taken.

Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by peeters » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:30 AM UTC

bluSCALE4 wrote: post #99

I played this with my 8 y.o. son. I called it a social studies activity, was that accurate?

Just beware there seems to be little content filtering, one of the images I got was pictures of war casualties tossed on the side of the road from 2015.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by robertpohl » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:35 AM UTC

score 3203!

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by dirtyid » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:41 AM UTC

jayknight wrote: post #128

IndySun wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would this work better as a daily game like wordle? I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and Wordle are not comparable.

Framed is pretty popular with some of my daily game friends, and it's visual. https://framed.wtf/

This is great

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by earthbee » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 7:55 AM UTC

I feel I'd be doing better at this game if I was a car person. The only time I've got the year spot on was with a photo of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein. The worst I did was guess 1960 on a black and white photo taken almost directly above of some cars on a road, it was actually 1980.

Fun but tricky

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by bongoman37 » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 8:25 AM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #42

I love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.

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Re: Chronophoto

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Post by darreninthenet » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 8:34 AM UTC

Would be interesting to train an AI on another dataset and then see how it does on this

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by wizofaus » Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 8:45 AM UTC

First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored just over 4400 (I guess 5k's the max?). Willing to bet a suitably trained AI would whoop any human's ass though, even ensuring none of the photos were explicitly part of the training data.