The Museum of Zoology of the University of Cambridge joined the project, which allows you to "talk" with animals that have long died out. With the help of AI, visitors will be able to “hear” their stories in text or audio format.
Not all exhibits were selected for this project: their number was 13 extinct animals, including the flightless drone bird, skeletons of a narwhal and a blue whale, a red panda, a skull and horns of a giant deer, a fossil skeleton of a giant sloth and others.
Visitors will be able to learn from the animals where they lived, what they ate, even how they got into the museum's collection. Each has its own tone of voice and can speak 20 languages.
Each of the experimental exhibits is programmed in such a way that it can differ from the others not only externally. For example, a platypus has an Australian accent, a red panda has a Himalayan accent, and a mallard sounds British.
Artificial intelligence offers visitors to ask questions and receive answers that are not in the standard list. So, you can ask about anything you want. In particular, when the flightless drone bird was asked about its diet, it described its diet as consisting of fruits, seeds, and rare small invertebrates. And he added that its strong beak is ideal for splitting the hard fruits of trees.
The authors of the project are graduates of the master's program in environmental leadership at the University of Cambridge.
Source: theguardian.com
