I did OK, didn't try to hard but was surprised at how good people are at this!
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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#22That was fun and definitely a bit challenging to figure out—I scored 3677, landing in the top 46%, with an average of 9.2 years. As for some (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think the year selection slider could benefit from a few adjustments. If an image is from the distant past—say, pre-1950s—it might make more sense to use decade-based precision rather than individual years. For example, a black-and-white phot…
The score takes the magnitude of error into account. Isn't it nice that guessing the precise year is more rewarded than guessing the decade?
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#23Thanks, got very lucky in the sense that they were recognizable events mostly, except the ladies on the beach, so was 1.2 years off.
Agreed. The beach goers threw me too. (Spoiler) I was off by 20 years.
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#24Great idea! The trick is to zoom into peoples clothing, and then the associated event becomes quite obvious. Eg. Photo of Disco, no crazy lapels, obviously towards the end of disco, which puts you within a year or two.
Might have gotten lucky but zooming in on clothing got me to 1.8 years off on average (top 2%).
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#25Thanks, got very lucky in the sense that they were recognizable events mostly, except the ladies on the beach, so was 1.2 years off.
As someone with interest in fashion and social politics, I got that photo year within 2 years difference. Many photos here are largely identifiable as political events but certainly helps to have a fashion background as others have commented in this thread.
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#26Tried plugging it into the new o3 model out of curiosity and it got 0.2, i.e. it got everything exactly right save for one that it missed by a year.
You know, there are easier ways to cheat at the game? The photos are from the internet, a reverse image search will surface all of them.
I read it as more of an experiment to gauge the capabilities of AI than an attempt at cheating.
I'm impressed that AI is that good.
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#27I've got 4861 (top 2% ~3 years off) If someone likes additional challenge then Teuteuf Games' WhenTaken has both guessing the year and location: https://teuteuf.fr/ They also got Worldle which was covered on hn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367906
Yes, the extra challenge of having to guess the place really adds some fun in WhenTaken. Direct link to it: https://whentaken.com/game
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#28What do the last emoji numbers mean when you share your results? Below my points, and how many avg years off, I got a dartboard, then "6", "3", emoji of a blind man walking, then "6".
I think those indicate how far off that guess was. I have a dartboard when I guessed the year exactly right, numbers 1 and 3 matching these years off, and a blind man for >10 years off or around there.
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#294920 here. Waiting for contenders ;)
More seriously I often wonder how this works in the brain when there is no obvious historical clue. Is it akin to guessing a numerical quantity (like when seeing a crowd) ?
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#30I love it. Just too bad you can't zoom in the picture on mobile. Had to open the picture on a new tab.
I pinched the page and it zoomed ok