<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jul 22, 2017, at 6:54 AM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Identify Anything, Anywhere, Instantly (Well, Almost) With the Newest</span><br><span>iNaturalist Release</span><br><span>by Eric Simons on July 17, 2017</span><br><span></span><br><span><<a href="https://baynature.org/article/identify-anything-anywhere-instantly-well-almost-newest-inaturalist-release/">https://baynature.org/article/identify-anything-anywhere-instantly-well-almost-newest-inaturalist-release/</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>Quote:</span><br><span>A new version of the California Academy of Sciences’ iNaturalist app</span><br><span>uses artificial intelligence to offer immediate identifications for</span><br><span>photos of any kind of wildlife. You can observe anywhere and ask the</span><br><span>computer anything. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and it seems</span><br><span>like it mostly works.</span><br><span>It is completely astonishing.</span><br><span></span><br><span>iNaturalist is now attempting plants, mammals, birds, insects,</span><br><span>spiders, slime molds … how do you even begin to train a computer to do</span><br><span>that?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Out of 2.5 million quality observations, according to an explanation</span><br><span>iNaturalist co-director Scott Loarie posted to the iNaturalist web</span><br><span>site in June, there are 13,730 species that have been identified and</span><br><span>confirmed more than 20 times. That’s the database they started</span><br><span>building their computer vision from.</span><br><span>------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Get the app here: <<a href="http://inaturalist.org/">http://inaturalist.org/</a>></span><br></div></blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>That sounds very useful for doing wildlife surveys.<br><br></span><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>