how confident is it in the identification? i imagine sometimes the angle is or resolution is bad and it may detect a bird but not have a lot to go off of to say what kind. does it narrow the list down or just make a guess?

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tdb7893 a day ago | parent [-]

It looks like they are using audio. Even with poor audio on my phone I find that it works very well. Once in a blue moon I'll get an ID I am doubtful of from BirdNet but it's rare in my experience.

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order-matters a day ago | parent [-]

but the thing with AI is that it excels in creating things we would not doubt, regardless of the truth. in particular, i find it to be susceptible to avoiding doubt at the expense of truth.

though i would be hopeful for bird audio, as differentiating their calls is something the birds themselves excel at, so it could very well be a great usecase for ai

	▲	micromacrofoot 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		machine learning has been used to identify bird calls for a while now, it's more of a classifier than a content generator, so it identifies calls and provides a confidence level while it's not perfect it's not really producing hallucinations of pterodactyls or anything like that