If the skeletons that fill the museums seem peaceful, fear not.
In Al's latest endeavor, dead animals will come to life to share their stories.
More than a dozen exhibits will receive the "gift of conversation" for a month-long project at Cambridge University's Museum of Zoology.
It is reported that equipped with personalities and accents, the dead creatures will be able to chat by voice or text through visitors' phones. the Guardian, the Telegraph reports.
The technology allows animals to chronicle their time on Earth and the challenges they faced, hoping to reverse apathy towards the biodiversity crisis.
"Museums are using AI in many different ways, but we think this is the first application where we're talking about it from an object perspective," said Jack Ashby, the museum's assistant director.
"Part of the experiment is to see if, by giving these animals their own voice, people think differently about them," added Ashby.
The project was reportedly created by Nature Perspectives, a company that is building AI models to help strengthen the connection between humans and the natural world.
For each exhibit, Al provides specific details about where the specimen lived, its natural environment, and how it came into the collection, along with all available information about the species it represents.
The exhibits change their tone and language to suit the age of the person they are speaking to and can converse in more than 20 languages, including Spanish and Japanese.
As part of the project, the conversations visitors have with the exhibits will be analyzed to get a better picture of the information people want about the specimens. /Telegraph/
