He continued: “A year ago I would see an AI video and say ‘wow that’s quite cool, obviously AI but it’s still quite cool’ and now I see things and, as a biologist who’s been working in the field for 30 years, have to do a double take and stop and work out if it is real.
“It’s really important that we understand what our natural world is all about. First of all there are plenty of miracles in the natural world that are just as exciting as anything people could conjure up.
“Secondly, if we’re creating a false image of what nature is, it’s just very, very hard for us to really figure out what’s real, what’s not real, what’s worth saving, what isn’t worth saving – and sometimes we get completely the wrong impression of what animals are.”
