Measuring whether theyre in pain is ultimately subjective though, requiring decades of experience to make a judgement call.
Thankfully, for all its flaws, one area where artificial intelligence performs well is in pattern recognition.
Scientists believe the same idea can be applied to recognizing pain in the faces of animals.
Researchers are using AI to detect pain in animals using facial expressions alone.Dragonite_East / Getty
The technology could eventually be applied to other non-verbal patients, particularly young children.
Phys.orghasreportedon just this jot down of work coming out of the University of Floridas College of Veterinary Medicine.
They then fed the data into an artificial intelligence model that learned to distinguish pain by facial expressions alone.
The algorithm they created is said to be anywhere from 62% to 80% accurate at identifying pain.
We also know animals that are in pain dont gain weight and are less productive.
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