The BIOSCAN-5M dataset features five million specimens from 47 countries with paired high-resolution images and DNA barcodes for every sample. The dataset’s hierarchical taxonomic labels, geographic data, and long-tail distribution of rare species offer valuable resources for ecological research and AI model training. BIOSCAN-5M represents a significant advancement in biodiversity informatics, facilitated by the International Barcode of Life and the BIOSCAN project, and is publicly available for download via Hugging Face and PyPI.

In this talk, Jerry Cuomo explores the risks of incorporating ChatGPT directly into business operations and discusses open alternatives and approaches for maintaining trustworthy AI solutions. The talk covers potential security concerns, liability issues, IP complexities, open-source license considerations, and the limitations of AI development, and highlights IBM's watsonx as a viable contender with components watsonx.data, watsonx.ai, and watsonx.governance, as well as collaboration with Hugging Face.