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Marchello_E t1_iy1vn42 wrote

All fun and games until you have (in some future) a system in place that (for who knows what kind of health and safety reason) relies on this plant taxonomy AI.

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marcus_lepricus t1_iy20ge4 wrote

Like a farming robot that sprays herbicides on everything identified as a weed?

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nilogram t1_iy2413z wrote

Why would the taxonomy change? The system would depend on a public taxonomy that anyone can change? Doesn’t seem smart

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Deadmist t1_iy3kf16 wrote

Because abusing google is way easier (read: cheaper) than building your own taxonomy database and system.

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step21 t1_iy3s82u wrote

In this case not anyone can change, it just changes randomly or when google chooses. Not much better.

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Marchello_E t1_iy8wdog wrote

- Nilogram: Why would the taxonomy change?
- Article: Google currently thinks all plants are algae.

Indeed. There's a growing trend of (software) dependency: pros and cons. Pro is usually cost savings, Con is the control part.

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