Cats Can Hide Their Pain–But Not from AI
Household cats are a secretive species. Unlike dogs, they are masters at masking their feelings and intentions—possibly because of their evolutionary history as solitary hunters. This built-in stoicism makes it hard for cat owners and veterinarians to read signs of pain in a cat’s facial expressions and behaviors, but new artificial intelligence programs may be able to finally peer behind the mask.A team of AI researchers and veterinarians has created and tested two machine-learning algorithms that judged whether cats…