It’s on the learning curve, and gracious when corrected! I recently, successfully(?) learned to recognize butterflies in general in the old Lepidoptera pile, primarily using their antennae. I thought I’d try extending my antennae skills with any other applicable superfamilies. So when I see common …

I had another round on the topic and now the the AI is 0/2. Relatable. ;) [image] [image]

First half ok-ish - second half some hallucinations: What does 'opting out of community ID' mean? In iNaturalist, “opting out of community ID” means choosing to not participate in the community identification process for your observations. Community ID is a feature in iNaturalist that allows other…

[image] carnifex: If you opt out of community ID, your observations will not be visible to other users for identification and you will be responsible for identifying the species in your observations on your own I woud prefer that to be true. Let me unsee global opted outs - and they can go ah…

[image] carnifex: If you opt out of community ID, your observations will not be visible to other users for identification and you will be responsible for identifying the species in your observations on your own. To opt out of community ID, you can go to your observation settings and toggle the s…

I also wonder whether that answer was a real ‘hallucination’ (sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?) But now, as I posted ChatGPT’s (wrong) answer here, it might provide a self-reinforcing source for the program to actually confirm its ‘opinion’ for its next learning cycle. Please, ChatGPT, mind th…

I bet iNaturalist’s early versions of Computer Vision had the same sorts of wrong answers (well, it still does, in some cases). I wonder how much better ChatGPT and its congeners will be after a decade of interaction with the public.

You can go back onto the conversation (sidebar at the chatgpt site) and correct it like I did, and maybe it will learn from its mistakes?

Might. Would be nice if ChatGPT got better. Really would help in ID ing.

I vaguely remember it was trained prerelease on “the internet up to around 2016”, so it may need a taxonomy update on some things first. Hm, I wonder if we whispered our favorite id tips to it, if another naturalist might hear that knowledge back later, when they ask about the same taxon? Like, som…

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pisum February 9, 2023, 12:17am 2

this is more or less what i was hoping could be explored for https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ai-for-identification-notes-and-comments/37989.

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