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Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

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Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.

Also, OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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