The next creepy step in facial recognition comes from Face.com--a little bit of software that purports to not only identify you with a photo of your face, but also deduce your age, gender, and mood. We'd be more creeped out if it wasn't sort of...not accurate. The above photo of Pop Photo's Dan Bracaglia, a 24-year-old who we'd describe as "smiling sardonically," was identified as a non-smiling 33-year-old man in a "happy" mood. Try it for yourself here. [via Gizmodo]
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Technically speaking, I applaud their ability to do this! But will I test it, no no no.... I have no intention of giving and or confirm my identity and details of me to the internet. No thank you!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
Tried it, but every single photo I upload it guesses "female"....um, yeah I'm a male......................a 20 yr old male at that.
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You do realize you just gave this website multiple pictures of yourself and perhaps data about yourself. It does not matter how it responds to you, it is collecting data about you. Perhaps this is a nice website, but still it is collecting data about you and you do not know what will happen to it in the future.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
Yeah, and they are going to use the data they collect about you against you and rape your soul with it!
If it is any consolation to face.com I would have guessed he was much older than 24 as well.