Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1].<p>I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863</a>
Apperantly when the website thinks you are a woman, it marks that column down as "Normal: No", because 82% of visitors are men.<p>Just something to think about.<p>Also it called me ugly :<<p>Edit:<p>I just ran the website for a second time and didn't change my clothes or anything, and it gave me very different results.<p>ie. gender, age, bmi, attractiveness all different.<p>I don't think the ratings for this is very stable & reproducible.<p>at least it rated my girlfriend as abnormally attractive. :)
What a great website and cool way to present a technical topic. Online education is still in its infancy and when we talk nowadays about good examples of online education, we usually think of videos and (in the best case) of websites where students can play with interactive models, solve exercises, etc. But this website demonstrates that you can still go mucher further in involving the listener as a person.<p>This of course requires an enormous effort in the preparation of the material.
That was simply amazing. Having the video guide you through all the machine learning prediction steps as they got analyzed on your video feed worked flawless, both in terms of technical execution but also presentatio nwise.<p>They also made some great points about how ridiculous some of these algorithms are (shake your head to lose 10 years of age, or just trying to predict BMI from a face photo)
Apparently I lied about my age, it predicts that I'm actually 8 years younger than I am which is fun.<p>It also tells me my BMI is about 9 points lower than reality which is also fun.<p>And that I've got as long left to live as I have lived already which is pretty awesome.<p>But it also tells me I'm ugly, which isn't so much fun :P<p>At least it correctly identified me as a man with 97% certainty. So I can stop worrying about that now :D
Yeah the data-gathering-AI-stuff is cool & creepy but I'm actually more interested in the UX of the site.<p>Forget buttons, dialogs, beautifully designed pages. Future UIs should have videos of a person talking telling you what is happening and what to do next!
Some fun easter eggs in this. For example, if you click the little EU flag at the bottom, it marks you as "Curious: Yes".<p>Also chuckled when I came closer to the camera when prompted, and it labeled me as a "Good boy"...
"Violently average" oof<p>Great website to share with my non-tech friends and family, they're tired of my rants but this is very well articulated.<p>Any chances of including other languages for wider reach?
I pointed my camera at my monitor and brought up conventionally attractive celebrities.<p>No one got higher than 6.2.<p><pre><code> Zac Efron: 6.2
Henry Cavill: 5.9
Pierce Brosnan: 5.1
Shemar Moore: 4.7</code></pre>
When I saw the headline I thought maybe it was an essay about how to think about your own mental state, which would have been super interesting to me – I'm desperate to know whether the little goblins running around in my head are part of the human condition or are my own customized baggage – but alas, they juts wanna tell me if I'm hot, which I already know the answer to.<p>I didn't give it access to my camera but it sounds like it's giving "attractiveness" ratings, but jeez, that's super complex. I imagine this thing is measuring symmetry and proportion, but that'll only get you so far; the "hottest" A-list actors usually have a kind of wabi-sabi quality, with oversized teeth, or an interestingly shaped nose, or a crooked smile. There are also obviously all kinds of attractive, and emotional baggage that factors into what's attractive to people (they're reminded of a parent or childhood crush, etc.)<p>The most interesting attractiveness-measurer I ever saw was a subreddit where you'd post your own photo, and members of the community would post photos of people who are equal to your own attractiveness, so it effectively threw ego out of the equation.
I was surprised to see without wearing any makeup that it was 93% sure I'm a woman, considering that I'm a trans woman.<p>Although, it did say I'm 16 with a BMI of 18.3, which is a huge undershot. There's no way I lost 45 pounds since I last weighed myself.
So apparently the algorithms say I'm almost 10 years younger than I actually am (late 20s, algos say I'm just about to get my student driver's license).<p>I wanted to see how much the camera quality affects these scores so I wanted to try on mobile but I can't get it to switch to the front camera.
I’m apparently a decently attractive (6.6) 14-year-old (I’m 34). I came closer to the cam, but it didn’t detect me doing it.<p>edit: And my wife actually got recognized despite being black. But it decided she’s ugly (3.4) and has no idea how old she is ;)
Nice project :) Too bad it doesn't say how old it thinks you are though (or I missed it) All I know now is that it thinks I lied about my age, which I didn't.<p>I'm just going to assume I look like I'm 20
67% normal<p>abnormally young, which is a normal observation by others of me.<p>The life expectancy is probably fair even though<p>BMI is just about right, 19.6<p>Am not a good boy :-D<p>This is fascinating and I also approve of the cause and message. Yet more reasons to have a simple camera cover.
Was that a hoax? It started showing me pictures of dogs in shower caps for some reason, said it was loading and unloading random data sets, then began quizzing me about random things.
The interaction heat map blocks the Skip button. I just wanted to see the score so I skipped all the talk but that also meant that my skipping made me unable to skip after that step.
The results were predictably "AI" = complete rubbish. Even though I'm a white male.<p>Our brave new world of "computer said so"…<p>Great presentation though, kudos!
So then the issue is who has this data, because algorithms are increasingly becoming commodity. Right now the biggest databases are superpowers, big tech , and ordinary countries. One way to remove the competitive advantage of any good or bad actor, is to make the data commonplace, in order to render it worthless, in order to remove the incentive for so much spying.
This website doesn't work at all for me (Safari, iOS 13). After asking for permission the video becomes modal and impossible to close, completely hijacking my browser and forcing me to quit the app. That's the state of JS in 2020 I guess.
I did it twice. Once with the internal camera in my laptop (Lenovo Carbon X1 Extreme sport 4x4 Cargo edition)
Received a 67%.<p>Second time with an external Logitech HD 1080p
Received a 83%.<p>I am apparently much more attractive and much thinner in HD.
I'm in my late twenties but people always think I'm around like 21 or something, I was very surprised to see that this site also guessed that I was about 22, I would expect a computer to see through that.
I got 7.9 for beauty index which was pretty surprising. I wonder what is the exact average over the whole sample? And who got the 8+ marks? The distribution would definitely be interesting to see.
I think the link to the Sherpa Project is wrong. It should be <a href="https://www.project-sherpa.eu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.project-sherpa.eu/</a>
Accuracy side, I thought the presentation was excellent! I really like the explanation playing while the analysis is taking place. I’m totally going to steal this presentation idea.
top left switch to front camera didn't work in my chromium browser on Android<p>beauty 6-8<p>BMI very vague 19-25 anyone could guess<p>it says i lied about age because I chose the two year higher instead of 3 years younger
Just moving my lamp around (i.e., making my face whiter, I'm guessing?) could add 2-3 points. Putting on glasses could do the same. Not sure what to make of this.
This is such a flattering website:<p>* 5.5 with glasses, 7.5 without. Glad I wear contacts, I guess.<p>* Age predicted: 20, truth: 30+<p>* BMI predicted: 18.7, truth: 22
the only data I reported was my age... and it had some big misses, like BMI being much less than it really is just because of beard. Also it said my life expentancy is going to be up to 81 years old, when in reality I will live forever :')