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Machines are getting smarter, no doubt, potentially able to engage in a conversation and, erm, kill their captors. But, telling just how hot a given person is has remained outside of the computer's grasp thus far. That's about to change thanks to software that can tell how attractive women are.
A program written by an Israeli computer scientist as a Masters thesis can take an image of a given woman and tell you just how shagalicious she is, making "aesthetic judgements" about the appearance of the person in question. The software was trained to recognize aspects like facial geometry, hair color, and skin smoothness to produce an overall attractiveness rating. When those ratings were compared to those given by humans, the machine produced similar results -- for women. The machine has apparently not been programmed to gauge the relative hunkiness of dudes, supposedly due to the "greater variety of positions regarding male beauty."
We're inclined to think it's more due to the interests of the programmer in question.
From Slashdot and Haaretz
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Subscribe to commentsKaylieApr 2nd 2008 6:22AM
AHAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
-Kaylie
John F.C. TaylorApr 2nd 2008 7:56AM
Not surprising at all. Especially after watching CSI. This is something that could easily be reverse engineered. Take known beautys and measure facial features, hair color, hair length, eye color, skin color and other factors. Teach the computer to recognize these factors and it could easily select who the real beautys are.
John F.C. TaylorApr 2nd 2008 7:56AM
Not surprising at all. Especially after watching CSI. This is something that could easily be reverse engineered. Take known beautys and measure facial features, hair color, hair length, eye color, skin color and other factors. Teach the computer to recognize these factors and it could easily select who the real beautys are.
NathanApr 2nd 2008 8:36AM
I am a guy and I find this extremly stupid it can only tell you about outside apearance.
In my short life I have come to learn you can only find true beauty in the soul not on a face
LzyApr 2nd 2008 9:00AM
"who the real beauties are" is very subjective. What is beautiful to me, may not be beautiful to you. Hair length has NOTHING to do with beauty. If one is beautiful, short or long hair does not take away from that beauty. Some people like blondes, some brunettes, some redheads. How would this computer judge which is more attractive? It can't. It can only judge what the programmer thinks is more attractive. (and I have a feeling, that if she is a real living, breathing human female, the computer geek would be attracted)
RachaelApr 3rd 2008 11:48AM
I would be considered gorgeous, then.
audrea lambertApr 4th 2008 1:31PM
Where can I find this gadgaet and use it,IM serious!wereisszzit!
JohnApr 13th 2008 7:18AM
Beauty is so subjective that this program seems useless to me. I find my wife to be the most beautiful woman in the world. No one can even hold a candle to her. She is Thai and drop-dead gorgeous. But while certain actresses don't come close to her, I think Drew Barrymore is the most beautiful actress there is. I also like Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock. But I think that Angelina Jolie is really, really ugly, which is not the opinion of most other men. Paris Hilton, ditto. Spoiled, useless and UGLY. So, again, this is very subjective. And, really, if a guy can't tell whether a woman is attractive or not, he doesn't need a computer program to tell him. He needs a psychiatrist to find out what is wrong with him. Keep the program, I'll take my taste and judgment any day.