This app uses AI to discover if your cat is in pain, and its cause

Even for a person who lives with cats, it is difficult to know when they are sick. AI comes to our aid.

In Japan there are already more pets in homes than children under 15 years of age (this is official data), so apps related to them are a great success. An app called CatsMe! has become famous, because supposedly find out if your cat is in pain.

Cats. Love them or hate them, but they don’t leave anyone indifferent. I have had a cat more than 10 years and I prefer them to dogs, but I have to admit that they are quite inexpressive. And that’s a big problem for them.

When a dog is sick or something happens to him, he himself is in charge of showing it to you. Instead, with cats, when they feel pain, barely change their expression.

The app that discovers if cats are sick

It is true that, in most cases, you notice they are less active, or they have a more downcast face. But it’s hard to know if it’s because they’re sick or in pain, or if they’re just apathetic or bored.

The Japanese app CatsMe! has the solution. The Carelogy company has worked with researchers at Nihon University in Japan to train an AI with images of more than 6,000 catsboth sick and completely healthy and happy.

As a result, this artificial intelligence is able to know if a cat is sick, or in pain, with a 95% accuracy rateaccording to its creators.

You simply have to take a photo of the cat, or record it on video. Artificial intelligence makes a diagnosis and tells you if the animal has a problem.

The owner can provide information to the AIcommunicating possible symptoms via chat: if the cat barely moves, has no appetite, loses hair, etc.

CatsMe! It was launched just a year ago, but it already has almost 250,000 paying subscribers. Without a doubt, a good deal.

Its creators assure that they are constantly improving it, adding to the AI training thousands of photos with different species of cats.

It is not an easy job, because there are many different species of felines, many of them with very different facial features.

Unfortunately, at the moment CatsMe!, the app with AI that discovers if your cat is sick or in pain, is only available in Japan. But, if you are curious, you can take a look to your website.

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Tags: Artificial intelligence, Viral, Pets, Curiosities