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Ever want to know what you rank on a scale from 1 -10? Want to know how attractive the opposite sex really thinks you are? Well, technology is evolving to answer these oh-so important age-old questions like, “how hot am I really?”
Scientists at Tel Aviv University have actually taught a computer to recognize attractiveness in women. (The next step, they say will be to teach computers how to recognize beauty in men, but they say, what constitutes male beauty is less universal as those traits defined as beauty in women.)
In the past, computers have been taught to recognize basic features that are deemed attractive, such as symmetry, smooth skin, and even facial expressions…however according to a recent article posted on American Friends of Tel Aviv University (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/afot-tst040408.php) the new software actually lets the computer make an aesthetic judgment on how attractive a women is.
On a more serious note, this discovery goes beyond the shallow vanity aspects of “how hot am I?” and opens to door to some big technological advances towards developing artificial intelligence in computers. According to the article, “Other applications for the software could be in plastic and reconstructive surgery and computer visualization programs such as face recognition technologies.”
Ever want to know what you rank on a scale from 1 -10? Want to know how attractive the opposite sex really thinks you are? Well, technology is evolving to answer these oh-so important age-old questions like, “how hot am I really?”
Scientists at Tel Aviv University have actually taught a computer to recognize attractiveness in women. (The next step, they say will be to teach computers how to recognize beauty in men, but they say, what constitutes male beauty is less universal as those traits defined as beauty in women.)
In the past, computers have been taught to recognize basic features that are deemed attractive, such as symmetry, smooth skin, and even facial expressions…however according to a recent article posted on American Friends of Tel Aviv University (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/afot-tst040408.php) the new software actually lets the computer make an aesthetic judgment on how attractive a women is.
On a more serious note, this discovery goes beyond the shallow vanity aspects of “how hot am I?” and opens to door to some big technological advances towards developing artificial intelligence in computers. According to the article, “Other applications for the software could be in plastic and reconstructive surgery and computer visualization programs such as face recognition technologies.”