Yeah, it's a funny take because this is in fact a more advanced form of AI with autonomous tool use that is just now emerging in 2025. You might say "They could search the web in 2024 too" but that wasn't autonomous on its own, but required telling so or checking a box. This one is piecing ideas together like "Wait, I should Google for this" and that is specifically a new feature for OpenAI o3 that wasn't even in o1.

While it isn't entirely in the spirit of GeoGuesser, it is a good test of the capabilities where being great at GeoGuesser in fact becomes the lesser news here. It will still be if disabling this feature.