AI Herbarium. Flowering Plants as Inventors of Their Own Existence

<p><em>AI Herbarium</em> is an artistic experiment that visualizes the evolutionary patterns of flowering plants through AI-generated imagery. By training AI/ML models on herbarium images of 100 wild Andean lupin species, this aesthetic research serves as an open-ended experiment, generating images that simulate past evolutionary patterns and speculate on future floral diversification. It also examines the potential of AI/ML models to create an interface between art and science, outlining directions for more effective future collaborations and interdisciplinary efforts in the research into nature’s response to anthropogenic climate change.</p>