Automatic iNat suggestion for "unknown" observations that reach a certain age

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@matthias55

If we could somehow just get the observations that are suitable for CV to be the ones that CV is applied to, and these observations could be IDed to genus, family or order with an acceptable error rate, I would be all for that.

i suggested above that the cv taxon should be captured in a separate field. i’m thinking if it could be expanded to capture confidence of the cv suggestion (see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-vision-should-tell-us-how-sure-it-is-of-its-suggestions/1230), then i think that gets you what you want, and it could also get what i was describing here:

@pisum

in that future world, i can see a new filter option in Explore and Identify where an expert could pull back, say, only the observations that iNat vision has less confidence about, with the assumption that observations with high vision confidence can easily be IDed by less experienced community members, with or without the vision assistance. let the novices ID the blue jays. (it’s sort of like the concept of comparative advantage in economics. even if an expert can ID both the easy and hard stuff way faster than a novice, the novices will never be able to ID the hard stuff. so let them do the easy stuff so that the experts can move the needle on the hard stuff. and if experts want to take a break and do the easy stuff once in a while, that’s okay, too.)