Scientists Trained AI To Detect Faces in Pain. In Goats.

The patient arrived with a bladder stone, grimacing in pain and moping about.

He wouldn’t even chew his cud.

The patient, you see, was a goat. And while treated for his bladder stone — a common ailment in the small ruminants — he was also contributing to new research that aims to accurately measure pain not only in goats, but other domestic animals as well and even, one day, in people.

“If we solve the problem with animals, we can also solve the problem for children and other non-verbal patients,” said Ludovica Chiavaccini, D.M.V., D.E.S., M.S., a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology in the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine. 

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