Microsoft can guess your age

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During the Build 2015 conference, Microsoft showed off its facial recognition software that can make an educated guess at your age.

Microsoft's Joseph Sirosh showed off the How-Old.net website by loading a few photos, including the Mona Lisa, and letting the cloud software work its magic to instantly return an age range. The software showed Mona Lisa's age as 23, which is fairly accurate based on what we know of the model in the famous painting.

Sirosh then invited everyone watching the stream to visit the site and try it for themselves.

The purpose of the demonstration was to provide a jumping-off point for a discussion of cloud-hosted APIs and how Microsoft's software can use the cloud to analyze large amounts of data quickly and easily. But you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, so the cool little site was the hook to people's attention.

We tried it out and it was pretty accurate, actually. But it also depends on how the person is the photo is orientated. For example, a front-facing photo produces much better results than one taken at a 3/4 or side angle.
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I wonder if it works on Asians?
 
I bet, this is another trick for the US Government, law enforcement, and Microsoft to get recent photos of people to create a large database full of people who tried this feature on MS's site.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I bet, this is another trick for the US Government, law enforcement, and Microsoft to get recent photos of people to create a large database full of people who tried this feature on MS's site.
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They do state they don't save photos, but take that for what it's worth.
 
Seems sort of interesting. I wonder if they have any plans to integrate this into any of their software, apps, etc..
 
alakazam said:
Do they really want thousands of lawsuits? Besides, if Microsoft wanted to collect and  store people's photos, they already have OneDrive to do that sort of thing...
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The site is not using a secure encrypted https connection according to my web browser because there is no lock icon  on my address bar or status bar when I visit the site, and the address bar displays http instead of https, so the government, ISP, law enforcement, other parties, or even a hacker can get image files directly from the internet  while it is traveling around the internet to MS's web servers if the picture robbers know how to get pictures while they are being uploaded from a PC to Web server.

Edward Snowden the NSA leaker expose that US internet companies, ISPs, and websites leak people's private information to the NSA and law enforcement, and they are required to keep it a secret to not get sued by the US Government.
 
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