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Mar 30, 2012

This Super Face-Scanning Software Thinks It Can Guess Your Age

Here's a pleasant first little look at Skynet—Face.com, which develops facial recognition software, now boasts that it can pinpoint your age based on your mug alone. Let's test it out.

The software is meant for developers to use in their apps—say, a browser extension that would block certain sites when kids were on the computer. Sure it's a little eery to think a computer can know us so well, but, God, get over it. And as it turns out, it's still pretty rough around the edges.

8 comments:

Jim said...

Very interesting finding, does the software think Princess Leia is 3-10 years old? LOL
Damn Skynet

Unknown said...

I thought this was a free to use app but then it lead me to itunes. Damn it would have been fun checking it out.

Outcast said...

Wow this is just amazing, even if it's not that great at least it sounds like an advancement to me.

duffboi said...

Amazing if it works.

That Random Guy said...

Very interesting, although I am sure it can easily be flawed.

Tenment Funster said...

I don't trust apps like this one. It's like somebody wants to pretend that technology is more developed than it really is.

Sir BaconBag said...

That's awesome!

Freshy said...

This could be really nice if worked. On screenshot there's computer-generated woman so that's why she's 7