Saturday 2 May 2015

How Old Do You Really 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.
In a machine learning experiment that's taken social vanity to new heights, Microsoft has created the website http://how-old.net  that tells you how old you look just by analyzing your photo.
Sometimes it's dead on. 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.
Part of a new initiative 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.
Culled from CNN


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