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Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do not store any photo on the server, so no worries!

Well, you could still add a delete button to make people feel better (I'm only half joking)

And as a potential user I'm only half-insulted.

But seriously, what purpose would it serve over a promise in TOS? A normal user will trust both (except the button would be bullshitting them). A privacy-obsessed one will trust neither.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#73
As someone who switches genders I find that it guesses my trans flavor right fairly often - maybe 75% of the time. It always gets my cis flavor right.

Also, the ones it rates the least attractive it, for some reason, tends to identify me as much younger (across both genders). Like more than a decade younger than the picture, and it'll rate it "Hmm..."

As for the highest rated pictures... I can't figure out what it does; though one where someone else did my makeup and it was perfect was among the two it rated stunning. I was surprised that the ones I tried to feed it where my phone's "Beauty face" kicked in (which removes most wrinkles and skin flaws) didn't seem to rate any higher... though makeup did make a difference.

A fun little toy.

Edit: Oh, and other than occasionally docking me a decade as mentioned, it was pretty accurate on age (+-3 years, generally). Which I find interesting as I'm frequently told I look younger than I am.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#74
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Hi, I'm Rasmus and worked on the algorithms behind faces.ethz.ch. If you have any technical questions, let me know! Sorry for having some stability issues, we got much more traffic than expected and are currently working hard to fix everything!

Could this site be used to optimize your dating profile photo (if you have one)? I'm probably "Hmmm" on most photos but possibly "Ok" or even "Nice" on a few. What does the algorithm want?

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#75
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Startup idea #384826 - "Does this outfit make me look fat?" As A Service

I actually thought an interesting idea is an app that recommends you which dating site to use based on your face. If you're good looking you can pretty much use whatever. But for someone like myself who is ethnic and not visually attractive, my success rate is really low on certain sites and acceptable on certain apps. For example, my performance on Match (Graphic I made: http://i.imgur.com/UZuSzD9.png ) was pretty w…

I've often wondered how I'm effected. I'm half-Korean so I look Asian but I was born and raised in America and now live close to Georgia Tech. I wonder how many people assume I'm foreign.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#76
See also "What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie" at http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ . To summarise the "What makes a good #selfie" section:

- Be female.

- Face should occupy about 1/3 of the image.

- Cut off your forehead.

- Show your long hair.

- Oversaturate the face.

- Put a filter on it.

- Add a border.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#78

Well, it was way off on my age, but it correctly gendered me ad female. Which I find quite impressive as I am a transgender woman, I've only been on hormones for 4 months, and most humans aren't even correctly gendering in me yet. More than anything, I'm curious to know what features it was that registered me as female. Was it as simple as the long hair, or some complicated subtle mix of many small details?

How do you know it isn't guessing sex instead of gender (and hence it "sexed" you wrongly)?

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#79
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http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.

Well, if it makes you feel better, see what the algo thinks is hot… https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/tI9QTAblYVanuA9 :-)

Is that ironic? 'Cause I think polar bears are so hot.

(XPpPpP)

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