AI is apparently coming for everything. Cameras can now recognize subjects before you've even decided what you're photographing, phones can remove strangers from the background of your vacation photos and apparently even spotting scopes are getting clever.
But just how smart are these so-called smart birding optics? Having spent a month with the GoBirding Vision Master APL-ETF-M1, I decided there was only one scientifically rigorous way to find out: try to make it identify something that wasn't actually a bird.
