{"id":416519,"date":"2026-02-09T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:41:08","slug":"ai-lets-visitors-to-cambridge-botanic-gardens-chat-to-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416519\/","title":{"rendered":"AI lets visitors to Cambridge botanic gardens chat to plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to let botanic garden visitors chat to 20 plants and get responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridge University Botanic Garden said its exhibition, Talking Plants, was a &#8220;world first&#8221; and a &#8220;playful way&#8221; to let people ask questions about evolution, ecology and cultural significance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each plant has been given its own name and personality, including &#8220;Jade, the Vine, the sassy ceiling-swinger of the Tropics House&#8221; and &#8220;Titus Junior, the Titan Arum, blunt, dramatic and famously foul-smelling&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Sam Brockington, exhibition curator, said it was &#8220;not about replacing our human expertise&#8221;, but about &#8220;finding new ways to stimulate learning&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to let botanic garden visitors chat to 20 plants and get responses.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-416519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}