A while back I posted a photo of a Common Hoopoe that was basically just a blurry smear. To my amazement, the iNaturalist machine ID recognized it without a hitch. I was just curious if other folks had ever had similar experiences with the machine ID suggestions. I’ve seen other threads about the ma…

i can’t think of a specific amazing ID off the top of my head, but i am generally impressed by the computer vision suggestions for visually distinctive birds, insects, and plants. it’s not exactly an accurate ID, but i was impressed that my observation of a bee next to a hummingbird feeder ( https:/…

[image] joe_fish: yeah, tell it to this observation :joy: I think it looks more like a sea otter.:woman_shrugging:

I am always amazed by the surprisingly good suggestion from the AI. Yes, I’ve had a couple that were hilarious, but those are by far the minority.

It can be a bug, there’re lots of ids 100% based on machine suggestions and yet not labelled as such, as I remember there’s a bug report that app doesn’t always report that? Because those are always phone pics.

I was pretty amazed that the CV got this one of mine of a Nessus sphinx moth. I knew the species in person, but the photo is a just splat of motion blur! I wonder if the model is trained on blurry photos of sphinx moths darting around.

Wow, I can’t even tell that that’s a moth, lol.

It Id’ed a Texas Brown Tarantula out of this cropped in image. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62610237 First on the list of automatic suggestions. I’ve never seen it be this accurate with such low quality.

Meanwhile I can see what the Computer vision had to pick from this photo https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19358519 to get it is Oenothera, but I remember clearly how amazed I was to learn from the top suggestions that it is Oenothera before it was IDed by the community. It was my first day o…

I’ve seen other observations where the computer vision identified gray rocks as elephant seals. One time the rocks were gray, squarish concrete blocks. I view this is a relatively benign error, but the computer does make it.

Personally, the number of spot on and nearly right identifications by the AI is really scary stuff. I predict that within 5-10 years all the IDs will be AI, and human IDs will be considered too inaccurate to allow to interfere with the process. It is not just the number of times the AI gets it co…

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nora_bryan October 26, 2020, 10:12pm 22

I’m learning my regional moths, and iNat usually gets them right away. I check against other sources, but it’s suggestions are usually right on.

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