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Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out (mashable.com)
"China's top search engine company Baidu made a smart cat shelter in Beijing that uses AI to verify when a cat is approaching and open its door," writes Slashdot reader AmiMoJo. "The cat shelter is heated and also offers cats food and water." Mashable reports: It can accurately identify 174 different cat breeds, as to let them enter and exit as they please. A door will slide open if the camera spots a cat, but it won't work on dogs. Multiple cats can fit inside the space. Another neat camera feature is that it can be also used to detect if the cat is sick -- it can identify four common cat diseases, such as inflammation, skin problems, and physical trauma. Once a cat is identified as needing care, associated volunteers can be informed to come and collect it. "Homeless cats often struggle to survive the winter in Beijing, and even though volunteers feed them their water bowls freeze over in the cold," adds AmiMoJo. "Due to many people living in apartments that don't allow pets, they can't simply bring the cats home."
Baidu has a blog post detailing the shelter and its use of artificial intelligence.
Baidu has a blog post detailing the shelter and its use of artificial intelligence.
Is Al the name of the hobo they are trying to give a simple job to and get him off the streets? If not, why are we trying to replace him with some buzzword laden software?
Well, that's just dog abuse if you ask me. I'm going to build a cat-exclusionary dog shelter that shoots cats on sight.
After all homeless people also have to endure winter, right?
A while ago (6 years alteast) someone did something similar in the US with his cat door so that it would not open if the cat had a dead animal in its jaws.
This is why you spay and neuter dogs and cats (among other reasons). Unfortunately, cultural reasons in many countries prevent this from happening, along with ignorance.
Of course if the smartest animal on the planet wouldn't simply toss dogs and cats, and puppies and kittens, into the wild because it didn't want to care for them, this wouldn't be an issue.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The other white meat.
Could we please stop labeling every device with logic built in as "using AI" ?
Let the dogs in!
Why can't they shelter dumb cats, too?
The first few times I read that it looked like "Smart Cat Smelter". Need more coffee.
Chinese cities have too many cats. It means there are hardly any birds, lizards, etc. They should be killing off strays rather than keeping them alive.
It doesn't use 'AI', it uses software. The same way things have used software since the 60s. There is nothing remotely new about this, other than millennial ignorance and insufferability. Yawn.
Why aren't the dogs allowed a shelter?
Cats >gt; dogs. ... or they just view one as a pet they need to take care of and the other one as dinner.
This reeks of plain bigoted cat-ism. Why can't cats and dogs just get along?? We need to foster understanding between cats and dogs, not continue to inflame the age-old rivalry between them. We need dialogue and empathy for the common plights they face (cold, hunger, no place to sleep, etc).
... using the acronym "AI" seems to be the go to click-bait method nowadays. Anyone want to guess how long before the use of the acronym "AI" becomes passe? At the current rate of usage, I'd give it two years, tops.
Wouldn't a small door do the trick?
-Dave
I'd love to see proof that it can correctly identify pointed-eared dogs as being dogs.
I thought this was about a smart cat that shelters uses (of something), until I came to "AI", and of course stopped reading.
Dear English: Please upgrade to compound words. They were invented to solve those kinds of ambiguities. (Oh, and fix your spelling and pronunciation mess while you're at it. Germanic or Latin/French. Pick one! :)
It really bothers me...when I go to a Chinese restaurant and the "chicken on a stick" doesn't look like rat at all.
I love cats and I have cats, and I also love dogs just never had any. It's a bad idea to feed any wild animal however. They will just multiply until the food is exhausted anyway. The only responsible thing to do is to capture them, fix them, and give good homes to all the ones you can.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
smart cat shredder uses ai to keep dogs out
It's getting harder to figure out which restrooms to use in California. This would help simplify things. Just walk by them and see which door opens up based on the AI algorithm.
The dogs and cats most worthy of successful breeding aren't being bred, while the puppy mills and irresponsible owners are, leading to a less intelligent/evolved population of pets which will have a difficult time evolving to become companions for modern man.
Same with Parrots and Simians.
Are dogs less of a priority or is there a different solution for them? Asking for a friend.
If we can't do it with humans because of civilization, at least let Darwin be right when it comes to animals.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I love cats, but it would be nice if people got some help around here, too.
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well the shelter is in Beijing...
The next stage is installing these outside of restraints to sort for cat, dog, squirrel, etc.....
https://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/ was neat 5 years ago, no AI, but it could detect if the cat was trying to bring a mouse back in with it.
They're not our crowd!
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Sounds like a real SHITHOLE COUNTRY to me.
Original slashdot article and discussion. Guy hacked together a digital camera (they were relatively new back then) and an electromagnet controlling the door latch, and wrote his own image recognition software to block the cat from using the cat door if it had a "present" in its mouth. The cat would be allowed in if it was not carrying anything in its mouth. But it also happened to work at blocking other animals from entering through the door.
Archive.org link to original TFA since the hosting site has apparently expunged it.
On a side note, why do homeless cats need to be protected in winter but not homeless dogs?
I thought that they would be eaten...? Do they need to be automatically screened for disease for this to be economically viable?
Lead the homeless to the southern border. I'm sure Mexico would let them in without passports or visas and care for them. Or maybe not, because countries generally don't allow people to cross their borders without following immigration procedures, do they?
Finally, we know step 2!!
1. Lure all cats (and only cats) into a feline-friendly "shelter"
2. Launch shelter into orbit
3. Profit!!!
If i print a cat mask, attach it to my face and crawl on all fours do you think i could get inside?
A dog is no match for a cat in a fight. When a cat wants a space, you don't need a "smart" door to keep dogs out, the cat will do the job all on its own! Each dog needs to learn the lesson only once.
If their AI system ever accidentally lets a Chow into the place, there ain't going to be no more cats. A Chow is a genuine certified cat killer. We had a dog that was just 1/2 Chow and it was the same way.
Chiwawas will evolve to say "meow".
Table-ized A.I.