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Beauty In The Eye Of The Android
rcswebb writes "According to this article at the BBC - Artificial intelligence experts in Fife (Scotland) have unveiled a robotic head which they say can scientifically determine how attractive women are to men."
They've shoved the entire databse of hotornot.com into a robotic head?
One man is not attacted to the same exact things as any other man, whether it be a woman's face, eyes, legs, or other part of a woman's body. So before people start using this thing and taking it seriously (in other words PLEASE take what it says with a grain of salt, ladies...and some gentlemen too. :) ), remember this is just someting generalized to work in most cases for the masses. After all, we are human, this thing is not.
Hmm ... I can see it now. You set up a camera in a busy hall, and have it beep you at the appropriate time. Without even having to look at a monitor, you could know *exactly* when to 'accidentally' step out into the path of that hot chick.
You just better hope the software is properly trained, or else you might step out into the path of Tito the body-building delivery guy.
start with a score of 0;
if eyes detect a mouth, score ++;
if ears do not detect a voice, score ++;
if nose does not detect a smell, score ++;
if score == 3, return ATTRACTIVE;
bags = 3 - score;
return bags;
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
from the article:
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The artificial intelligence firm received its first prototype of the robot, nicknamed Doki, last week and is now mass producing the android.
Initially it could be used as a receptionist-style greeting device.
imagination: "Good morning. I find your facial features androgynous but, regardless, rate you a six. Thank you, and have a nice day."
imagination2: "Would you like some coffee while I rate your sex appeal?"
imagination3: "For a better rating, sit on my face
Now slashdotters can immediately determine that the woman they are drooling over will shoot them down!
Think of the time that can be saved to put back into computers and doritos!
You just need to know the input parameters.
Attractiveness = (Attractiveness Constant) * Alcohol consumed by the man / Amount of clothing on the women
Like G, the value of the Attractiveness Constant is elusive.
I have been pwned because my
I remember seeing on TV a few years ago (probably on Discovrey, but maybe TLC) a program that talked about what made people attractive (face wise) as part of a story on something else, plastic surgery I think. They talked about how it's based on some ratio that's found all over the body (fingertips are 1.something times longer than the next segment). So this guy came up with a geometrical "ideal" face showing the ideal ratio. Then they used computers to compare peoples faces to the way the "ideal" face was and made a "beauty index." They used examples like the Mad Magazine guy (very low), Cindy Crawford (high), etc. Things like symetry were taken into accound (the "line" they eyes are on should be parallel to the mouth "line", and perpendicular to the nose, things should be evenly spaced, etc.) Just take that, and combine it with other things ("hour-glass shape detector", etc.) and you end up with an automatic beauty detector.
Just my 0.02, FWIW.
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To be either malicious during AI training, or inquisitive of its effectiveness, I wonder what these AI constructs would do if presented images/likenesses of Julia Sweeney from "It's Pat!"
Things that make you go 'hmmm..'
I would ask what my chances are, but then I already know the answer.
Of course, and I highly suspect it, I may be talking out of my ass. -oqti
it judges women's appeal on a scale of A, B, C, or D. It is apparently based upon the "CUP" system, must be some acronym.
People will complain about this measurement being subjective, but it isn't nearly as much as you might think. There are common features that statistically significant numbers of men are attracted to. I hate Julia Roberts, for example, but I'm willing to admit that most men find her hot. I love Salma Hayek, but realize that there are a handful of insane males that don't.
So, folks, don't whine about the options here, Mr. Roboto will serve you well when you send him bar hopping to scout out the one with the hottest chicks.
An army of geeks who couldn't get laid even if they wanted to.
If the robot rates on "feminity", it might rank Oprah higher than a member of the Women's Swedish Swim Team, contradicting every man in the world.
Also, there was a study in Discover(I think) that showed that digital "Averaging" of faces produced a face that was stunningly beautiful. However, while an "average" face might be ranked by a robot as beautiful, it might harshly rank offbeat faces that some people like, such as Julia Stiles and Christina Ricci.
I don't think the brain has a lot to do with it.
When this technology can be shrunk down and put in a wrist watch, it will be the drunk man's best friend.
No more waking up next to Bo Diddly.
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Kirkcaldy is only a few miles from St.Andrews University which made all the papers in Britain about 4-5 years ago with news they'd created an image of the perfect woman and man (or something like that) ... ie those that are most attractive (on average) to members of the opposite sex. MBCook is right about the metrics involved ...
More info from a recent BBC article or from the St.A perception labs homepage - the face transformer page here is quite fun.