MediaGuesser: Human vs AI
Rate itGuess where five daily photos were taken and see if people beat the AI models.
Every day: Every day a new game of five photos to place on the map, the same for every player. Players' scores add up to humanity's total, set against AI models that each get one guess per photo. New puzzle: Midnight UTC (the countdown to the next game runs out then).
MediaGuesser: Human vs AI is a free browser game where you get five photos a day and drop a pin on a world map where you think each was taken. Your points count toward humanity's score, which is shown next to the scores of a list of AI models given the same five photos.
About MediaGuesser: Human vs AI
MediaGuesser: Human vs AI is a daily mode of MediaGuesser, a browser game about working out where a photograph was taken. It comes from Panascais GmbH, a company in Eschborn, Germany, and runs in any browser with no download.
Each day there is one game of five photos, the same for everyone. A photo fills the screen, with a world map beside it. You can zoom into the picture to look for road signs, plants, buildings or the shape of the hills, then zoom the map, place your pin and submit the guess. A round timer runs while you look, and the closer your pin lands, the more points you get, up to a five-photo total in the tens of thousands.
What sets it apart from other photo location games is the opponent. The same five photos are given to a set of AI models, each allowed one guess per photo like a player, and a table on the front page lists each model's score for today, its average and its best, with Humanity as one more row. The site says plainly that this is for fun and not a benchmark. Results for earlier days can be viewed, with the best human score next to the best AI score.
It suits players who like GeoGuessr-style map guessing but want a short, fixed set each day, and anyone curious how well people do against the models.
How to play MediaGuesser: Human vs AI
- Open mediaguesser.com/human-vs-ai and press Play today's game.
- Look at the photo; zoom and pan it to find signs, plants, buildings and other clues.
- Zoom the world map and click where you think the photo was taken.
- Press Submit Guess before the round timer runs out to score points by distance.
- Repeat for all five photos, then compare your total with humanity's score and the AI models' table.
Tips
- Writing on signs and shop fronts narrows a country fast; look at the alphabet before anything else.
- Which side of the road cars drive on and the colour of road markings rule out whole continents.
- Zoom the map before placing the pin: a pin in the right region but the wrong valley still loses points.
Questions
When does a new MediaGuesser Human vs AI game start?
Once a day. The countdown on the page points to midnight UTC.
Which AI models does it play against?
A list of models from several labs; each gets one guess per photo, like a player, and the table shows today's score, the average and the best for each.
Do I need an account?
No. Today's game can be played straight from the page.
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