Kōkiri Lab
Kōkiri Lab

Biodiversity & Discovery · Week 7 of 9

Can we trust the machine?

Test it · Judge it

FORGE Test · Evaluate

Today's goal

Test MaramaTrap's AI identifications against our own and an expert's, and evaluate its confidence.

By the end

Audit table complete with a reason for each disagreement.

What we'll do (60 minutes)

  1. What does 'confidence' mean for an AI?10 min
  2. Audit: our ID, AI ID and confidence, expert ID, agree?25 min
  3. Evaluate: when is high confidence wrong? when is low right?15 min
  4. Write the class trust rule10 min

Need a hand?

5 photos with the expert answers given.

Want a challenge?

Test photo quality against AI confidence.

Try this week

AI this week

MaramaTrap moth identifier: Suggests which moth family is in a photo and says how confident it is (from 0 to 1). You: Check it against your own ID and an expert's. Decide when to trust it and when not to.

Student worksheets for Biodiversity & Discovery (Word)