An AI-Powered App to Crow About on Earth Day

Whether you’re cleaning up a beach, planting a tree or starting a garden, iNaturalist makes it easy to get in touch with nature. iNaturalist is a crowd-sourced species identification app powered by AI. For the casual nature observer, the app allows people to snap photos of such easy targets as backyard plants and bugs and upload images for its AI to provide a match or for members of the community to identify. The app is also a social network for nature enthusiasts to record information on species, meet others with similar interests and learn. It’s available on Android and iOS , where it’s already been downloaded nearly a million times.