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Episode: A talking dodo leads a new AI experiment at a zoology museum
Description: The last confirmed sighting of a dodo was in the 17th century. But at the Cambridge Museum of Zoology, it is speaking again. These are the skeletal remains of a bird that was extinct by the 1680sβand is one of the first animals humans realized they had driven to extinction.
But now it is chatting away, answering anything and everything in a natural conversation.
Using AI technology, visitors to the museum can talk to the dodo using their smart devices.
It responds to pleasantries, it can explain how it was driven to extinction when sailors arrived at its Mauritius ho...