Someone on facebook told me that Google Lens on his Google Pixel phone is way better at identifying things than iNaturalist’s computer vision. I’m skeptical, but identifying plants and animals is one of the advertised features and I guess if it uses Google Images and most of the images on iNaturalist end up on Google Images, it’s possible. It might make sense with birds, although I’d still expect Cornell’s Merlin to do better, but I think he was suggesting that it even worked better for “bugs”…
This isn’t the same as Google’s reverse image search though.