October 14, 2024

AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition

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AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of Zoology

If the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. In the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories – and even their experiences of the afterlife.

More than a dozen exhibits, ranging from an American cockroach and the remnants of a dodo, to a stuffed red panda and a fin whale skeleton, will be granted the gift of conversation on Tuesday for a month-long project at Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology.

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