Very fun, but I'm horrible at this WhichYear 4/20/25 3045 pts 13 avg. years off 4⃣ whichyr.com
I thought hackernews strips out emojis, interesting.
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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#32Tried 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.
Why would s/he come here to boast about cheating on a game? S/he was obviously testing the AI.
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#33I love it. Just too bad you can't zoom in the picture on mobile. Had to open the picture on a new tab.
Zooming in worked for me in Arc on iPhone
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#34That 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…
Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use them less going forward.
Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few decades off won’t tank your score nearly as much as it would on a newer one.
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#35I love it. Just too bad you can't zoom in the picture on mobile. Had to open the picture on a new tab.
Usability on mobile Firefox was not great.
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#36I love it. Just too bad you can't zoom in the picture on mobile. Had to open the picture on a new tab.
This is great to know, thanks! Will hopefully have it working for tomorrow's challenge.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is it good, or are those photos already in the training data that the model was trained on?
Would be interesting to see how well it would fare on five photos from different years, using pictures that have never previously been uploaded anywhere.
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#38Very clever idea! This was fun!
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#39One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts.
Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc.
edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
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#40Thanks, 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.
Likewise, 29 years out for that, everything else within a couple of years.
Probably didn't help that I'm not American so the cultural references aren't there.