Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Today I read an article about a Microsoft website wanting to guess how old you were.
The website is called how-old.com. You can upload photos and let the website try to guess how old you are. As soon as you go on the website and click on a few images, though, you can obviously see that the system is not flawless. In fact, it seems very erratic and does things that are blatantly wrong.
For example, it gave Gollum in the Lord of the Rings a rating of male and 44 years old.
Does that look like 44 to you? However, it said that a 29-year old woman was 24, and that is pretty close. 5 years here or there, it doesn't really make that much of a difference if you are already around 30 years old.
As you can see, the Microsoft website is flawed, and there is a lot of room for improvement. However, I think that with a few months, possibly years of work, it could get very, very accurate.
The website is called how-old.com. You can upload photos and let the website try to guess how old you are. As soon as you go on the website and click on a few images, though, you can obviously see that the system is not flawless. In fact, it seems very erratic and does things that are blatantly wrong.
For example, it gave Gollum in the Lord of the Rings a rating of male and 44 years old.
Does that look like 44 to you? However, it said that a 29-year old woman was 24, and that is pretty close. 5 years here or there, it doesn't really make that much of a difference if you are already around 30 years old.
As you can see, the Microsoft website is flawed, and there is a lot of room for improvement. However, I think that with a few months, possibly years of work, it could get very, very accurate.
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