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AI · July 24, 2019

iNaturalist

Real life Pokemon - identify/share plants and animals nearby

iNaturalist launched on July 24, 2019 with 11 votes, #836 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

Pokemon was inspired by the author's childhood memory of running around chasing after rare insects. This app was able to correctly identify the type of the butterfly from a picture of a caterpillar I shared. It's also sponsored by National Geographic

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I’m just a 20 year old that wants to know what every creatures purpose is around me and this has been the most fun way to do it. There are no ads, you upload a picture of the animal of reasonable quality, it helps if there’s multiple pictures and you describe what you saw in the description area. You put your location, which can be moved around so that your location isn’t known. It’s important to note that the location is key in determining a species sometimes so be decently accurate on the location. Once you’ve done that, AI, that’s right, artificial intelligence studies the pictures and compares them to other picture alike and species in the area to often give you a suggestion that’s…from apps.apple.com

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