Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to let botanic garden visitors chat to 20 plants and get responses.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden said its exhibition, Talking Plants, was a “world first” and a “playful way” to let people ask questions about evolution, ecology and cultural significance.
Each plant has been given its own name and personality, including “Jade, the Vine, the sassy ceiling-swinger of the Tropics House” and “Titus Junior, the Titan Arum, blunt, dramatic and famously foul-smelling”.
Prof Sam Brockington, exhibition curator, said it was “not about replacing our human expertise”, but about “finding new ways to stimulate learning”.
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