{"id":194635,"date":"2026-03-10T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/spelman-college-students-developing-ai-tool-designed-to-help-people-talk-to-their-plants\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:10:09","slug":"spelman-college-students-developing-ai-tool-designed-to-help-people-talk-to-their-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/spelman-college-students-developing-ai-tool-designed-to-help-people-talk-to-their-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelman College students developing AI tool designed to help people talk to their plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/spelman-college-plantgpt-ai-tool-people-communicate-plants\/\">Spelman College students developing AI tool designed to help people talk to their plants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/spelman-college-plantgpt-ai-tool-people-communicate-plants\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/spelman-college-plantgpt-ai-tool-people-communicate-plants\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 17:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbsnews.com\">www.cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spelman College students are developing an AI tool named PlantGPT to help people care for their plants.<\/li>\n<li>PlantGPT uses AI to monitor plant health data collected by sensors in the soil.<\/li>\n<li>The AI provides personalized care instructions based on data such as humidity, light intensity, soil moisture, and outside temperature.<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Obi and Temple Dees, who both have minimal plant care experience, are leading the project and aiming for wider applicability beyond houseplants.<\/li>\n<li>The students envision expanding PlantGPT to local farms and groups of multiple plants to assist caretakers with environmental information.<\/li>\n<li>The innovation lab at Spelman College emphasizes student collaboration and forward-thinking ideas, with the project serving as a model for future careers in computer science.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s potential personal utility for the students, with Obi suggesting they might start using the tool to care for their own plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spelman College students developing AI tool designed to help people talk to their plants https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/spelman-college-plantgpt-ai-tool-people-communicate-plants\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/09\/7810a491-b923-4695-8b9c-13a09f46f80f\/thumbnail\/1200x630\/415ad205b0ac531660414606f20d645c\/plantgpt.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194637,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194635\/revisions\/194637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}