Google's Museum App Finds Your Fine Art Doppelganger (engadget.com)

The latest update to the Google Arts & Culture app now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. It will then present you and your fine art twin side-by-side, along with a percentage match, and let you share the results on social media. Engadget reports: The app, which appears to be unfortunately geo-restricted to the United States, is like an automated version of an article that circulated recently showing folks standing in front of portraits at museums. In many cases, the old-timey people in the paintings resemble them uncannily, but, other than in rare cases, that's not the case at all with Google's app. Google matched me with someone who doesn't look like me in the slightest, a certain Sir Peter Francois Bourgeois, based on a painting hanging in Dulwich Picture Gallery. Taking a buzz around the internet, other folks were satisfied with their matches, some took them as a personal insult, and many were just plain baffled, in that order.

Comments

Thanks, Google - but I call shenanigans

[93 Escort Wagon]

There's no way I most resemble Edvard Munch's The Scream .

I laughed so hard that I couldn't breathe.

[jmhysong]

I just saw this tweet about that app tonight. Hilarious! (NSFW) https://twitter.com/RoryAlbane...

Additional functionality

[Anonymous Coward]

Will tell you whether your face is a hot dog or not.