Change the actions of the computer vision AI to never suggest an identity to species or below. eg to only sub-genus level or above. In scientific terms I am suggesting that the auto identification’s precision (ie to species level) exceeds its accuracy in many cases. The problem this causes is tha…

Without going into a lot of detail that is not in my area of expertise, I can share that the iNat team is actively working on improvements to computer vision that will perform much better for suggesting taxa coarser than species (but will still suggest species when we have enough data). [image] …

[image] charlie: I do think limiting the algorithm geographically would make it much more an asset than it is now. I suppose they didn’t want it getting it wrong for vagrant specimens etc, but yes if it’s not known from the area, then don’t suggest it would work for me.

[image] carrieseltzer: @charlie , there’s a url hack to the stats page to see more stats history, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/stats?start_date=2008-03-20 omg awesome! [image] tony_wills: I suppose they didn’t want it getting it wrong for vagrant specimens etc, but yes if it’s not kno…

Should have added that the team is also exploring the impact of removing species from CV suggestions if they have not been seen nearby.

Ok, enough said, the team are on to it, we can pack up and go back to the work of observing things :-) Just as an aside: I was just doing some back-of-the-envelope type validity checks using that stats page, looking at the percentages in each year of species level community identifications - and I …

[image] carrieseltzer: Should have added that the team is also exploring the impact of removing species from CV suggestions if they have not been seen nearby. Hmmm, I hope it is a little more nuanced than that. There are still many many species that just haven’t yet been observed on iNatural…

I would not like to see this. The species level id is getting quite good for the things I submit. And if it does make a mistake then it is an opportunity to train it. Not going to species level would mean it does not get better at the species level.

[image] jciv: As a new user, the AI was the best part of iNatualist. You can often get answers in seconds in the field if you want. If it is used responsibly, then yes, it can be a good tool. But relying on it solely, without then checking range maps or some other source to determine the ver…

For marine and non-marine mollusks worldwide (outside of the best-covered, best known areas such as New Zealand, the US etc), it would be good if the AI could offer only family-level IDs. Even genus would be too narrow – currently for the lesser-observed parts of the world (which are vast and numer…

Since the iNat developers are actively looking at improvements to computer vision’s confidence with species rank IDs, and species rank IDs won’t be wholly removed from the suggestions, I moved this topic from Feature Requests over to General.

Change computer vision suggestions to only above species level

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Change computer vision suggestions to only above species level

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