"machine learning could be used to visually identify fungi" Even if the recognition rate would be way better - NOPE. There are mushrooms that look really iden

"machine learning could be used to visually identify fungi" Even if the recognition rate would be way better - NOPE. There are mushrooms that look really identical - but one is deadly poisenous and the other good to eat. Some mushrooms you can only identify by slicing them up, smelling, watch color change, look for certain small details under the top - and where they grow. With current state of ML, you can get only a very rough classification and I doubt that changes anytime soon. Portable DNA sequencing sounds better, but I am sceptical, if the tech is mature enough. (If it is, sign me up, but it sounds expensive, they do not even have a price tag)