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AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] Yaky@slrpnk.net 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Other than with language models, this has already happened: Take a look at apps such as Merlin Bird ID (identifies birds fairly well by sound and somewhat okay visually), WhoBird (identifies birds by sound, ) Seek (visually identifies plants, fungi, insects, and animals). All of them work offline. IMO these are much better uses of ML than spammer-friendly text generation.

[โ€“] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Platnet and iNaturalist are pretty good for plant identification as well, I use them all the time to find out what's volunteering in my garden. Just looked them up and it turns out iNaturalist is by Seek.