Source: Laura Bridgeman, VOX, 6/12/21


Facial recognition technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous, used in everything from security cameras to smartphones. But in the near future, humans may not be the only ones to be digitally captured. Researchers are training forms of artificial intelligence to recognize individual animals by their faces alone — and even discern their emotional state just by reading their expressions. Much of the research into animal facial expressions has focused on species like dogs and horses.

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