[thaumasiotes]

> especially the part where AI would somehow differentiate extremely visually similar species from each other

We have an AI for this exact task now, Seek by iNaturalist. It keeps getting rave reviews.

The only problem is that it's terrible at identifying things. I have a picture of an elephant seal that it is certain actually shows a clouded monitor lizard.

[justincormack]

Seek is not “by” iNaturalist. It does use models generated from their data.

[thaumasiotes]

> Seek is not “by” iNaturalist.

This is one of the stupidest comments I've ever seen. The app is provided by iNaturalist, and its name is, literally, "Seek by iNaturalist".

Check it out: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

[BelleOfTheBall]

I've used Seek and, yes, if this is what the current capabilities are like, we are not ready to use AI for new species discovery.