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Actually I use it as a starting point for fungi. Seek will usually get me to the genus, and from there I can cross reference various books to narrow it down. Hell, sometimes it'll give me an exact match, and then I just have to perform a yes or no ID with my field guides. That being said, I mostly end up with no, I'm shit scared of all amanitas and most mushrooms just aren't tasty enough to warrant the effort.

I have heard that spore prints are a reliable way of determining mushroom species (removing the stem, putting the underside of the mushroom on an ink pad, pressing against paper, and comparing the print with those of known species).

I bet an AI could analyze that data pretty well. But since there's really no market for such a product, if I want it, I would have to make it myself. In which case I highly advise against using it because I really don't trust me.

Speechify also pays the people who's voices they're using rather than taking them from publicly available videos and recordings without permission.

Wait that's genius. I would listen to Snoop Dogg teaching me particle physics any day of the week.

I think the key here is you're using it for yourself only.

You could say the same about a plant identification book.

It's not so much that AI for plant identification is bad, it's that the higher the stakes, the more confident you need to be. Personally, I'm not going foraging for mushrooms with either an AI-based plant app or a book. Destroying Angel mushrooms look pretty similar to common edible mushrooms, and the key differences can disappear depending on the circumstances. If you accidentally eat a destroying angel mushroom, the symptoms might not appear for 5 to 24 hours, and by then it's too late. Your liver and kidney are already destroyed.

But, I think you could design an app to be at least as good as a book. I don't know if normal apps do this, but if I made a plant identification app, I'd have the app identify the plant, and then provide a checklist for the user to use to confirm it for themselves. If you did that, it would be just like having a friend just suggest checking out a certain page in a plant identification book.

sorry couldn't hear you over the CRUNCHING OF MY MEAL

I have a feeling I know where your username came from.

I hate when streamers/gamers/etc refer to procedural generation as "ai generated". It's infuriating.

You're talking about types of machine learning algorithms. Is that a more precise term that should be used here instead of AI? And would the meme work better if it wss used. I'm asking, because I really don't understand these things.

I suppose both plantnet and deep fakes have conv networks as part of their architectures though

Alphafold? Beautiful. Perfect. No notes.

Nudeify type apps? Fuuuuck alllll the way off!

Not all of AI is LLMs, most aren't.

The most annoying thing since the rise of LLMs is that everyone thinks that all of AI is just LLMs

Classification machine learning models can also be neural networks, which is something that was called AI also

AI isn't just about LLM. Modern AI libraries (pytorch, tensorflow etc.) can be used for being trained with all sorts of data.

With all the hot takes and dichotomies out there, it would be nice if we could have a nuanced discussion about what we actually want from AI right now.

Not all applications are good and not all are bad. The ideas that you have for AI are so interesting, I wish we could just collect those. Would be way more helpful than all the AI shills or haters rn.

Depends.

Old, niche videogames where the fanbase doesn't have the capacity to do it? Sure. James Cameron replacing Arnold with a UHD leather Muppet in True Lies? Not so much.

Gethuman.com is my go-to. They used to be much better than they are now, but it's still routinely better than trying to navigate automated systems or find phone numbers myself