Alya + Microsoft = BFFs
I’ll admit it, I don’t have a lot of friends. I’m especially selective in the BFF department but that all changed last night when I met Microsoft’s How Old Do I Look?
At first sight I was skeptical, even a bit scared and then I gave it a go and
Voilà! We’ve been besties ever since.
The geniuses at Microsoft, and I call them geniuses for the obvious reasons, have created a terribly powerful machine that will judge your age using algorithms. You give it a picture, and it gives you almost instantaneous judgement, complete with gender assignment.
Behind the scenes, Microsoft is using machine learning to better churn through the untold number of photos on the internet. That is not an easy job, and one just about every search company is trying to get just right.
So what’s the point of this? Microsoft says it’s for “obtaining real time insights” on the data it’s gathering about people’s gender and age. It also means you can give it countless photos of your friends, family, celebrities, and mythological creatures and see how badly they get mangled.
Forget Trivia Crack and Solitaire people, THIS is the best game Microsoft has bestowed upon humanity!
Can you tell I had some fun with it?
This one of Jacob under the Eiffel Tower is actually spot on!
Give it a try and let me know if you 👍 or 👎my new BFF.
Alya
