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AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Thanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when cats could need medical help.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Can you tell what a cat is thinking just from looking at it?

0:30.3

Probably not.

0:31.9

Cats evolved to be solitary hunters stocking their prey, not social animals, like us humans.

0:37.0

And that poker face might be handy while you're out stalking prey, but it's a real problem if humans are trying to figure out whether their pets are in pain.

0:46.0

So that's why researchers are trying to read more into feline feelings.

0:50.0

Interesting.

0:52.0

Using artificial intelligence as they love to do and I'm

0:58.8

I'm Sophie Bushwick tech editor at Scientific American I'm Julie Bowes, Multimedia Editor.

1:03.6

And you're listening to Tech Quickly, the version of Scientific American Science Quickly

1:07.5

podcast that just wants to boop AI on the nose.

1:11.0

Yeah. on the nose cute.

1:22.0

Right now, if you want to see whether cats in pain, you have to take a quiz called the Glasgow

1:24.1

Feline Composite Measure Plain Scale.

1:26.6

Interesting.

1:27.6

It's also just called the Glasgow Scale.

1:29.6

Okay.

1:30.6

But the question is, what is on the scale? Yeah, what is on the scale? Well, I just so happened to have printed out a couple copies for us to peruse. You did not. I did indeed. Wow. Take a take a look at this. This looks like a buzzfeed quiz for a cat pain but a little more talk about it in.

1:48.0

Yeah, the least favorite. Wow. Okay, interesting. So I see some little cartoon cats here and I see

1:54.8

their like little ears squashed or upright and then I see which one is your

1:58.9

cat. Yeah and then I see you know a second set of little cartoon cats here and then their

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