Petauroides volans

Southern Greater Glider at Harolds Cross, NSW

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Identification history

Petauroides volans	8 Dec 2024	DonFletcher
Petaurus notatus	8 Dec 2024	CarbonAI
Petauroides volans	8 Dec 2024	courtneyb

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There were 2 in the frame, but photo too crap to make out the second one.

5 comments

courtneyb wrote:

8 Dec 2024

CarbonAI keeps incorrectly ID-ing my Greater Glider sitings as Sugar Gliders. Can a moderator please fix this one?

DonFletcher wrote:

8 Dec 2024

Hi @courtneyb, the short answer is that you are fixing it (and other contributors) by patiently submitting records for it to make mistakes with. Like other AI programs, Carbon learns from its mistakes, when moderators correct them. Some things are quick but depending how visually similar the alternatives are, it can take an awful lot of images to train AI. IMO, Carbon has performed astonishingly well with commonly photographed things like wombats, echidnas, macropods, rabbits, rakali, platypus, brush tailed and ring tailed possums, etc, so I don't really have to look at those any more. But gliders will take more time, and Yellow Bellied may need a decade or more. Please just keep sending lots of records!

courtneyb wrote:

8 Dec 2024

@DonFletcher thanks for fixing this one and for the info! It was interesting that CarbonAI was confident enough to confirm this one rather than suggest (usually it’s the latter for the GG sitings).

DonFletcher wrote:

8 Dec 2024

@courtneyb yes that is a concern and I'm surprised that it was verified. I understand the trigger for verification is 99% correct, but I have corrected at least a dozen GGs misidentified as P. notatus, so Carbon seems far from ready to be confirming P notatus. @AaronClausen how say you?

AaronClausen wrote:

9 Dec 2024

Good save many thanks @DonFletcher - going to adjust the 99% threshold to 100% and then reevaluate Carbon's behaviour...

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