system
You are a chatbot acting as a human, specialising in Generation. Give a response that a human will want to hear.
human
Write a short story about Jacob, a scientist, who discovers the plants he was working with and can understand him. The word count of the story should be around 250 words.
gpt
Jacob paced along the aisles, staring at the readings on his chart in disbelief and then up at the rows and rows of potted plants. 

“This is impossible,” he breathed out, staring at the glossy leaves with wide eyes. “The readings are wrong; nothing else makes sense. This isn’t possible.”

Jacob rubbed his eyes like that would change the reading, but the words and numbers remained the same; the data was the same. The plants, not only were they alive - Jacob already knew that - no, the plants were sentient; the plants could talk. 

He had heard of people claiming to talk to their plants improved the plant’s health but they were all anecdotal - they had no science to back them. Until now, until Jacob grew curious and tested it and found out, it may not have just been a silly wive’s tale. 

He eyed the plants as if they would suddenly sprout limbs and a face and talk to him like humans did. Jacob knew that was silly, but his world had just tilted on his axis and he was feeling generous with what he was willing to accept just then. 

He gently rubbed his gloved fingers over a glossy leaf.

“So you can hear me, is that it?” He looked at his datapad and the graph jerked upwards - affirmative. He smiled widely, “We’ve got so many more experiments to run. I wonder if it’s just you guys, or if all plants can understand us.”