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AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 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

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.com.j.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:36.6

Can you tell what a cat is thinking just from looking at it?

0:40.3

Probably not. Cats evolve to be solitary hunters stalking their prey, not social animals like us humans.

0:47.3

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.

0:55.6

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

1:00.4

Interesting.

1:01.4

Using artificial intelligence.

1:05.3

As they love to do.

1:07.6

And I'm Sophie Bushwick, tech editor at Scientific American.

1:11.4

I'm Jillika Bose, multimedia editor.

1:13.4

And you're listening to Tech Quickly,

1:15.3

the version of Scientific American Science Quickly podcast

1:17.8

that just wants to boop a eye on the nose.

1:20.9

Cute.

1:36.4

Right now, if you want to see whether cats in pain, you have to take a quiz called the Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Plain Scale.

1:37.0

Interesting.

1:39.3

It's also just called the Glasgow scale.

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