Artificial intelligence could possibly help us understand when animals suffer or show other emotions – at least according to researchers recently profiled in science.
For example, the IntelliPig system is developed by scientists from the University of West England Bristol and the Rural College of Scotland, which examines the photos of the faces of pigs and informs farmers if there are signs of pain, illness or emotional distress.
And a team from the University of Haifa – facial recognition software that has already been used to help people find lost dogs – now trains AI to identify signs of discomfort on their faces, which share 38% Facial movements with humans.
These systems are based on human beings to do the initial work of identifying the meanings of different animal behavior (generally based on a long observation of animals in different situations). But recently, a researcher from the University of São Paulo experienced the use of photos of the horses before and after surgery and before and after taking pain relievers – causing an AI system to focus on their eyes, Their ears and mouths – and says it was able to find out alone what signs could indicate pain with a success rate of 88%.
