A name for iNaturalist's AI / computer vision

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LinnAI us is perfect!

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That makes me think of a line from Brian Daley’s book Jinx on a Terran Inheritance:

Floyt yelled, “Wait! You don’t understand!”

Which was pretty much the phrase Alacrity had once submitted in a contest for the slogan of the Organization for Interspecies Understanding. It did no more good than it had during the contest.

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I should suggest that the name is connected to one of its creators such as Alex Shepard.

So maybe something novel like Alex-ia?

Or just Gerald and we make an icon of a wise-looking muskrat that knows everything.

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I like it! The name also reminds me of Theodore Stephanides, Gerald Durrell’s omniscient mentor in Corfu (perhaps the mentor everyone dreams of…)

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Natalie or Nathaniel, I prefer Natalie though or even iNatalie

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iNatCV seems like the most logical way to brand the thing, if you’re going to officially brand it. it’s relatively consistent with how iNaturalist has branded other things (ex. iNatForum), is relatively short when written, says exactly what it is, and even sounds a bit like the most notable AI out there right now (ChatGPT).

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I am mostly focused on updating the bot flies. So for my AI work I could call it a “Bot-Bot.”

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I don’t think romanticizing AI models is a great idea, in general.

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What, no one has suggested Gerald yet??

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(Psst, @jdmore)

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Oops, missed it. I’ll say no more. :sweat_smile:

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Never tell me the odds!

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Miss Identotron!

Sometimes it’s not always correct!:rage:

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iNat calls it Computer Vision. Good enough for me.
iNat says it is not Artificial Intelligence.

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+1 for iNatCV, consistent branding, clear name, no humanization of non-human stuff

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Here are 20 suggestions from ChatGPT:

  1. NatureSense
  2. iVision
  3. BioVision
  4. FloraScan
  5. WildEye
  6. EcoSight
  7. BioGaze
  8. iFloraAI
  9. EcoLens
  10. iNatureScan
  11. VisionFlora
  12. WildWatch
  13. BioScope
  14. NatureLens
  15. EcoDetect
  16. iSpecies
  17. BotaniScan
  18. WildSight
  19. FloraEye
  20. EcoView
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Those first 3 aren’t bad. Interesting that it seems to emphasize flora in the suggestions - did that come from what you asked it for by any chance?

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I love it!! Asking one AI to suggest names for another… pretty soon they’ll have their own communities apart from us.

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Will they need moderators to resolve the fights - or will they remain polite, if not actually friendly ?

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+1 for iNatCV.
Or just Computer Vision.