Engineers at the software company wanted to test their newly released face detection software, which guesses your age and sex, so they opened it up to the public. They hoped to get 50 respondents — and they got over 35,000 in a few hours

A Little Background

It took a group of developers about a day to set up the online demonstration, but the facial recognition algorithm has been in development for much longer. The site was really meant to kick-start a conversation about the powerful potential of cloud-based software that can analyze data quickly.

Behind the scenes, Microsoft is working to perfect machine learning — as are most other tech giants — to better sort through the Internet’s countless photographs. In addition to facial recognition, Microsoft is also testing speech recognition and image processing algorithms to sift out the chaff in image searches.

So far, it seems like the algorithm needs a little work (Microsoft admits this as well). The algorithms, much to the pleasure or humiliation of thousands, add decades to the clearly young, and trim years off the obviously old.

Website: http://how-old.net

All hail microsoft

buhari's true age would soon be revealed! Time to ban the software

hey hey that(F) just above me na u i dey talk to wetting my president buy for your pa hand no pay