I've always been a little freaked out by talking museum exhibits. As someone who spent my childhood wandering around WW2 exhibitions, I have been confronted many a time by a horrifying wax work in a helmet exclaiming his disapproval of the Axis in over-acted Shakespearean tones.
"But what about the animals?", said no-one in particular. Well, thanks to the power of AI™, a new exhibition at Cambridge University's Museum of Zoology is bringing speech to dead animal exhibits (via The Guardian). And these aren't just pre-recorded monologues either—long-expired creatures and models can "converse by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones."
