The only thing I’ve ever really wanted that didn’t used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.
This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven’t seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there’s one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog’s breed. Haven’t seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.
Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.
Seek and iNaturalist is for all animals and plants. They use your photos to track data about the species you take pictures of, mostly just where you found them. It also keeps track of all of the species you’ve found and gives you challenges to find certain species depending on where you are in the world. If the AI fails to identify something, your photo can be peer reviewed by other users.
Gemini itself sucks for pretty much everything. The non-AI assistant that preceeded it did a much better job, IMO. Though, it didn’t have item recognition capabilities at all out side of music. It feels like it’s just a language bot being forced to do things it wasn’t designed for, so you ask it what a thing is and it just spits out text that seems normal but is also completely wrong.
The general “thing” recognition is better on my Quest 3’s room scanning function. But it’s not meant for telling you what things are, just for making furniture in real space appear in virtual space too 🤷♂️
The only thing I’ve ever really wanted that didn’t used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.
This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven’t seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there’s one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog’s breed. Haven’t seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.
Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.
Seek and iNaturalist is for all animals and plants. They use your photos to track data about the species you take pictures of, mostly just where you found them. It also keeps track of all of the species you’ve found and gives you challenges to find certain species depending on where you are in the world. If the AI fails to identify something, your photo can be peer reviewed by other users.
i’ve seen commercials of Gemini doing this. not sure how accurate it is realistically…
Gemini itself sucks for pretty much everything. The non-AI assistant that preceeded it did a much better job, IMO. Though, it didn’t have item recognition capabilities at all out side of music. It feels like it’s just a language bot being forced to do things it wasn’t designed for, so you ask it what a thing is and it just spits out text that seems normal but is also completely wrong.
The general “thing” recognition is better on my Quest 3’s room scanning function. But it’s not meant for telling you what things are, just for making furniture in real space appear in virtual space too 🤷♂️