AI brings extinct dodo and other animals to life in museum experience [Video]

By Stephen Beech via SWNS

People can talk to a dodo – thanks to artificial intelligence.

Visitors to the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology will get a unique chance to chat with some of the species on display – whether skeletal, stuffed or even extinct – from Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Museum assistant director Jack Ashby has chosen several animal specimens to bring back to life using generative AI in collaboration with the company Nature Perspectives.

It is believed to be the first time a museum has used generative AI to enable visitors to chat with objects on display in such a way.

Visitors can pose their questions to 13 species – including dodo and whale skeletons, a stuffed red panda, and a preserved cockroach – by scanning QR codes that open a chat-box on their mobile phone.

In two-way conversations, which can be voice- or text-based, the animals will answer as if they are still alive.

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