What happens when plants talk back? Experimental AI exhibition at the Botanic Garden Jessica Keating Tue, 02/10/2026 - 08:09 From ant plant meditations to orchid jokes, an exhibition opening at Cambridge University Botanic Garden gives a voice to rare specimens. Read more about What happens when plants talk back? Experimental AI exhibition at the Botanic Garden

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From ant plant meditations to orchid jokes, an exhibition opening at Cambridge University Botanic Garden gives a voice to rare specimens.

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets. The models are already using knowledge from one field to address seemingly completely different problems in another.