Well I never! Auburn – Parisian?
From the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 places in Sydney that look like Paris. They’re not where you might think:
‘Artificial intelligence that was trained in Australia has “returned” from a virtual our of 1692 cities around the world with data to show which are the most similar to Sydney and Melbourne. The results are not what humans expected.’
I’ll say!
South Parade, Auburn ranked 4th or 83.9 per cent of places in Sydney that most strongly resembled Paris on the map network.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
South Parade Auburn:
Actual Paris:
Yeah-naaaaaaaaaaaah.
Though it does make more sense when they say:
‘the features that made a city “Paris-like” on the map network were a higher density of trains and trams, broad sections of urban green space and parks integrated with waterways.’
As you can see it’s pretty chockers around the station
So it detected the density part OK, just not the actual aesthetics on the ground!
I mean it is getting gentrified, gradually, but Paris is a real stretch. Maybe we’ll cross the SMH’s ‘latte line‘ sooner rather than later!
Livin’ the dream in Sydney’s (inner) western ‘burbs with a Wookie and a bossy cat.
