For insects iNaturalist has the best trained models I know of, though of course not all insects are visually identifiable from a photo, especially beetles. It's actually incredibly good with birds as well. I post observations to iNaturalist daily and use the AI all the time for identification, even when I know the species the models usually figure it out as well and it's saves typing.
I have used iNaturalist since 2014, the quality wasn't great initially but with the continued observations adding high quality annotations to the data their training improved pretty quickly, by 2017-18 it was already really good.
Dang. I was just hoping maybe I could identify the beetles that come out and crawl around my floor around dusk.
I've been trying Seek on them, and when it identifies a species it says "Strawberry Seed Beetle", but that seems unlikely unless strawberry seed beetles are common household pests.
J.B.S. Haldane joked that if some god or divine being had actually created all living organisms on Earth, then that creator must have an "inordinate fondness for beetles." They're incredibly diverse, this article has a nice table that sums things up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_biodiversity
There's ~64.000 mammal species total, insects clock in at ~1,000,000. Of insects Coleoptera, the beetles, are estimated at 360-400k species. There's about 2,000,000 species in Animalia total and a bit less than a quarter are beetles.
If you use iNaturalist it's more helpful on that count than Seek since some beetles are more identifiable than others, and there are entomologists who might be able to help confirm some ids, I've had luck with a number of ground beetles and some other species.
I also came to the conclusion that I should try iNaturalist. It doesn't appear to be especially lively, but I did find several "nearby" observations of what I can only assume is the same beetle, and one had been labeled (by the uploader) harpalus sinicus. (Context: middle of Shanghai.)
The harpalus identification seems pretty safe. Identifying the species from a photo seems like a hopeless task, so further identification would presumably have to rely on background knowledge like "there's only one common harpalus species in your area".
The strawberry seed beetle, as far as I can tell, is in fact nearly visually identical, so in some sense Seek made a respectable guess.
Seek is iNaturalist. If you want, after Seek identifies it you can hit a button to post to the iNaturalist website, and then human users will review and add their own identification.
I have used iNaturalist since 2014, the quality wasn't great initially but with the continued observations adding high quality annotations to the data their training improved pretty quickly, by 2017-18 it was already really good.