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Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by samplank2 »

cdjk wrote: post #28

This is awesome. I had the same feeling I had when I first played GeoGuessr. It's one of the first times I've seen what is obviously AI-generated video used in a super compelling way. I want to keep playing. A few super nitpicky comments: - I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC…

Thanks for the kind words and for the feedback! Good call about PG mode. We also want this to be usable in classrooms so that would definitely help.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by samplank2 »

Mobius01 wrote: post #27

I love the concept! A really compelling game , especially for history nerds like me. Two thoughts: 1. The AI imagery is often misaligned with the actual answer, with some anachronistic elements. 2. The scoring seems harsh. I got a couple of answers within 50km and/or 10 years in the time scale but was still severely penalized. Good luck with this, I will definitely watch your progress and pass it along

Thank you! Appreciate the kind words and the feedback. Definitely need to improve on both fronts!

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by samplank2 »

echelon wrote: post #42

YC funded a bunch of AI video companies (4+), and AFAICT the Eggnog folks are hustling the hardest. The path forward as a foundation video model company closed, so they worked hard on end-to-end story creation workflows and mobile. Turns out that's hard to gain traction and distribution amongst dozens of other similarly shaped startups. So they hack on games and fun viral loops. Keep at it! This is super clever. You'…

Thanks for the support!

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by lukev »

yeah it's a cool concept, but knowing what I know about the ability of generative AI to accurately replicate specific moments of history, it falls flat.

The whole point of this kind of thing should be to reward people who can recognize "that architectural style wasn't invented until the 13th century" but that's precisely the sort of thing image models cannot do reliably.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by baud147258 »

Personnaly I didn't felt as if I was trying to recognize a place and period in history, but trying to guess what prompts were used to generate the pictures. Or at least for some of the pictures where I wasn't as sure of the event (like seeing the rose on a picture for the war of the roses).

Also I didn't listen to many of the sounds, but I got English voices for something happening in France (the Fauvisme guess).

But still I had some fun and it's nice to see a good use for AI

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by samplank2 »

lukev wrote: post #58

yeah it's a cool concept, but knowing what I know about the ability of generative AI to accurately replicate specific moments of history, it falls flat. The whole point of this kind of thing should be to reward people who can recognize "that architectural style wasn't invented until the 13th century" but that's precisely the sort of thing image models cannot do reliably.

I agree that it's not possible to have them do 13th century architectural style perfectly right now. But I believe it will be soon. The image/video models are improving, but so are the reasoning models, and they can check for and fix anachronisms.
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