Extinct no more: AI is bringing the dodo back to life (kinda) at a museum in Cambridge

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A museum experiment in Cambridge is allowing visitors to have a conversation with a dodo, and other dead animals, with the help of artificial intelligence.

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00:00Hello, how are you?

00:05Ah Jack, welcome back. I'm as lively as a spirited memory can be.

00:10Encased in my glass world, I flourish on the curious energy of visitors.

00:30I was wondering if you could tell us how you became extinct.

00:33The decline of my kind, the Dodos, is a tale tinged with both simplicity and tragedy.

00:39Life on Mauritius was idyllic until the late 1500s, when humans arrived with settlers and sailors.

00:47People can ask whatever they like, and when I started working with the Nature Perspectives platform,

00:52I was just asking factual questions, but because the animal's personality comes across really quickly,

00:58you end up having an actual conversation where you're asking more about feelings or you're asking anything fun.

01:02You could ask it how its day was, what it had for breakfast.

01:05What's it like to be a platypus?

01:07It's like dancing to nature's most eclectic symphony.

01:10Imagine this, your senses are heightened in the water.

01:13With my bill, I'm attuned to the electric whispers of the river, detecting creatures hidden beneath the surface.

01:28Nature Perspectives

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