According to Tech Crunch, artificial intelligence (AI) has now developed to a stage where it can help us know when animals feel pain, discomfort and other complex emotions - according to researchers described in the latest academic journal of the American Association for the Development of Digital Science.
One of the specific achievements is the Intellipig system, which is being developed by scientists at the University of West England Bristol and the College of Rural Scotland (UK). The daily task of this system is to check the face of each pig within the scope of the study and notify farmers if they discover signs of pain, weakness or mental stress of each subject.
And at the University of Haifa (Israel) - the unit behind facial recognition software that is used to help people find lost dogs, a research team is testing AI training to identify emotional markers on the faces of dogs, which have 38% human-like facial movements.
These systems have a common starting point in that they all use human emotions to establish input data and build assessment standards to draw conclusions, and rely on the process of observing animals in different situations over a long period of time to determine the meaning of their different behaviors.
But recently, a researcher at Sao Paulo University has experimented using facial photos of horses before and after surgery as well as before and after they use painkillers to train an AI system that focuses on the eyes, ears and mouths of horses to understand and identify signs of pain expressed on the horse's faces with an accuracy rate of up to 88%.
For both scientific and purely livestock purposes, it is undeniable that if technology develops correctly and accurately, one day in the near future we can truly communicate with animals and understand them, something that often appears in fairy tales and science fiction films.
