Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts

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The PIGEON algorithm was able to geolocate this 2012 photo of the author on a backcountry trail in Yellowstone National Park to within roughly 35 miles of where it was taken. Courtesy of Geoff Brumfiel

Courtesy of Geoff Brumfiel

A student project has revealed yet another power of artificial intelligence — it can be extremely good at geolocating where photos are taken.

The project, known as Predicting Image Geolocations (or PIGEON, for short) was designed by three Stanford graduate students in order to identify

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