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Saturday, 2 May 2015

How Old You Look: This website will tell you in seconds

You're only as old as you think you are. Or in this case, As old as a computer algorithm thinks you are.


You're only as old as you think you are.
Or in this case, as old as a computer algorithm thinks you are.
In a machine learning experiment that's taken social vanity to new heights, Microsoft has created a website that tells you how old you look just by analyzing your photo:

This website is Sometimes dead on it. Other times it's hilariously, outrageously wrong.
It's simple: Upload a selfie, wait a few seconds -- then the machine gives you a number.
And since it can analyze anyone's photo, you can compare yourself to your friends, family, and foes.
But guessing someone's age is a dangerous game, even for a robot. That's probably why the site comes with a sheepish apology. "Sorry if we didn't quite get the age and gender right," it says after each result.
The company unveiled the website at a conference Thursday as a way to show off its new software called Project Oxford, Microsoft says you could use this face detection technology for tasks like sorting through a large photo collection.


But we're human -- so we'll probably just use it to judge our own looks.
And everyone else's.

Source: CNN

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