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Comment by mikestew

2 days ago

My wife and I have a running joke about the Seek app: "Dicots. It's always dicots."

Too often, pointing Seek at a plant results in "dicots", which is about half the flowering plants out there.

I feel like seek's IDs are not as good as they should be given the state of ML. Maybe a dataset problem but still.

  • Season likely plays a factor too. There are many plants that more or less look identical (to the untrained eye) until they either bloom or grow large enough.

    • true. it is also pretty bad at IDing things that are half-formed, eg a bud that hasn't bloomed yet, presumably because most photos in the dataset are of the blooming version.