Experts expressed concern about the new mobile application for the iPhone, using "revolutionary artificial intelligence" to identify edible fungi. As the microbiologist Colin Davidson says, the "potentially deadly" program carries a threat to human life, trying to recognize the danger of the organism by photograph alone.

"Yellow champignon is the most common type of mushroom in my district, and on top and on the side it looks exactly like a meadow mushroom," says Davidson. - But if you eat it, you will probably get very sick and even be hospitalized. To understand which mushroom is in front of you, you need to tear it, scratch it or sniff it ". There are also more dangerous types of mushrooms.

According to the expert, a person can die by eating only one-eighth of the body's caps.

An application for iOS that "instantly identifies any mushroom, flower and even a bird in photography, using revolutionary AI" and technology of machine vision, was developed by Nicholas Sheriff from the United States. In his defense, he says that the program "is not intended for mushroom pickers. It was created for moms who want to find out which mushrooms grow in the yard ".