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Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by amyjess »

JimboOmega wrote: post #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 do…

31-year-old trans MTF here... uploaded my most recent picture, and it said I was 20, female, and ice cold "Hmm...".

Uploaded a picture from about a month ago... same, except it said I was 19.

Well, I'm flattered it thinks I can't drink, and I'm glad I pass. Too bad it doesn't think I'm hot, but I've always preferred to go for cute over hot anyway.

I'm gonna dig through my photos and see how consistent this is... (edit: a couple more, 21-22, female, and still ice cold)

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by MrQuincle »

rrothe wrote: post #14

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!

Hi Rasmus, you described your paper on age estimation on the site. Do you also have something written on the hotness scale? :-)

Edit: Sorry, missed it! http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07867v1.pdf

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by the-dude »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #72
tlrobinson wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by such_a_casual »

dholowiski wrote: post #51

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?

> most humans aren't even correctly gendering in me yet

This made me laugh really hard. What a positive twist on the fact that the algorithm is clearly a WIP.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by amyjess »

dholowiski wrote: post #51

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?

I've been on hormones for a little over two years now. Submitted several pictures from the last few months: it's consistently gendering me female (yay!) and a decade younger than I actually am (yay!), but it's saying that I'm ice cold "Hmm" (aw...).

What direction was it off on your age? I'm 31 (30 in the older pictures I sent), and it said I was 19-22 in all the pictures I tried.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by JimboOmega »

amyjess wrote: post #81
JimboOmega wrote: post #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 do…

31-year-old trans MTF here... uploaded my most recent picture, and it said I was 20, female, and ice cold "Hmm...". Uploaded a picture from about a month ago... same, except it said I was 19. Well, I'm flattered it thinks I can't drink, and I'm glad I pass. Too bad it doesn't think I'm hot, but I've always preferred to go for cute over hot anyway. I'm gonna dig through my photos and see how consistent this is... (edi…

As an example (both me, and I'm in my early 30s): 24, "Hmm...": http://imgur.com/V1AMDfd 27, "Stunning": http://imgur.com/bmmJ2dg

I'm actually a year younger in the second picture than the first. Maybe it's the glasses?

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Post by Madmallard »

rrothe wrote: post #14

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!

None of the images I am uploading are working. It is saying it cannot detect a face on any of them. Is this a masking of the stability error or some other issue?
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