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