iNat is a good example of what now the AI can do and I think it is doing very well, often also with difficult species. But, as it could be expected, it also makes mistakes. When the identifications proposed by users and the AI do no coincide, do you usually rely more on the first or the latter?

I use CV for most of my observations that are plants and insects on Long Island since the NYC area is so well documented on Inat. However, I rely on humans for ID’s over CV always, and if my ID is corrected by someone else with an accurate description I will agree with them, even if it disagrees wit…

One problem with CV cannot be avoided: at least as far as we are talking about animals, especially insects, many of them are trying to cheat all the time. It is called Müllerian mimicry , and CV is having a hard time with it. Bad-tasting species of unrelated groups converge on the same appearance, an…

CV offers Similar Species, which can be useful (not to you, but to me)

I use the AI for batch uploads for “wham bam” quick ID’s for most moths I know. Anything suspicious or unlikely that the AI suggests I will back up to genus or family, so I guess my answer would be I trust the human (myself) to make the call, and the AI only verifies my gestalt choice. At least fo…

[image] kevintoo: we’ll get to the point that the CV corrects the experts. I can see a not too distant future when iNat itself says something like “Sorry kevintoo you failed to notice the hairs on the tibia of that bee". To quote Emo Philips: *A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no m…

I’m ambivalent about the CV. It’s good! But sometimes it’s wrong. If I’m trying to ID something I totally don’t know, I’ll usually use the CV identification but back it up to genus. (Like many others, I’ll also use its suggestion just to avoid typing out the name.) There are some people here wh…

I’d rather use the CV for genus or family than leave something to languish at phylum or unknown. If it gets the genus or family wrong, humans probably would, too. How many difficult taxa have we seen stay at “Needs ID” because different humans have different ideas about it? How is that better than p…

For me, it depends very much on the taxon concerned. With Australian moths, I find that it is a great help in getting to identifications. It is very good on the common species, with others I will often compare the species it suggests with all those in higher level taxa. With Australian marine mol…

[image] bazwal: Only truly intelligent things can know what fun is. I’m sure real AI will be able to recognize jokes and make new ones.

I’m with nyoni-pete. For me, it depends on the taxon and the location and even the life stage. If I upload a decent photo of an adult moth from here in New England, the computer vision is usually right. If I upload a decent photo of a dragonfly exuviae from here, it’ll be way off. I often use the C…

Do you rely more on humans or on iNaturalist's computer vision?

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Do you rely more on humans or on iNaturalist's computer vision?

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