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MODERN artificial intelligence is much feted. But its talents boil down to a superhuman ability to spot patterns in large volumes of data. Facebook has used this ability to produce maps of poor regions in unprecedented detail, with an AI system that has learned what human settlements look like from satellite pictures. Medical researchers have trained AI in smartphones to detect cancerous lesions; a Google system can make precise guesses about the year a photograph was taken, simply because it has seen more photos than a human could ever inspect, and has spotted patterns that no human could.
AI’s power to pick out patterns is now turning to more intimate matters.

Research at Stanford University by Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang has shown that machine vision can infer sexual orientation by analysing people’s faces.

The researchers suggest the software does this by picking up on subtle differences in facial structure. With the right data sets, Dr Kosinski says, similar AI systems might be trained to spot other intimate traits, such as IQ or political views. Just because humans are unable to see the signs in faces does not mean that machines cannot do so.

The researchers’ program, details of which are soon to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, relied on 130,741 images of 36,630 men and 170,360 images of 38,593 women downloaded from a popular American dating website, which makes its profiles public. Basic facial-detection technology was used to select all images which showed a single face of sufficient size and clarity to subject to analysis. This left 35,326 pictures of 14,776 people, with gay and straight, male and female, all represented evenly.

Out of the numbers
The images were then fed into a different piece of software called VGG-Face, which spits out a long string of numbers to represent each person; their “faceprint”. The next step was to use a simple predictive model, known as logistic regression, to find correlations between the features of those faceprints and their owners’ sexuality (as declared on the dating website). When the resulting model was run on data which it had not seen before, it far outperformed humans at distinguishing between gay and straight faces.
When shown one photo each of a gay and straight man, both chosen at random, the model distinguished between them correctly 81% of the time. When shown five photos of each man, it attributed sexuality correctly 91% of the time. The model performed worse with women, telling gay and straight apart with 71% accuracy after looking at one photo, and 83% accuracy after five. In both cases the level of performance far outstrips human ability to make this distinction. Using the same images, people could tell gay from straight 61% of the time for men, and 54% of the time for women. This aligns with research which suggests humans can determine sexuality from faces at only just better than chance.

Dr Kosinski and Mr Wang offer a possible explanation for their model’s performance. As fetuses develop in the womb, they are exposed to various levels of hormones, in particular testosterone. These are known to play a role in developing facial structures, and may similarly be involved in determining sexuality.

The researchers suggest their system can pick up subtle signals of the latter from the former. Using other techniques, the program was found to pay most attention to the nose, eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, hairline and chin for determining male sexuality; the nose, mouth corners, hair and neckline were more important for women.

The study has limitations. Firstly, images from a dating site are likely to be particularly revealing of sexual orientation. The 91% accuracy rate only applies when one of the two men whose images are shown is known to be gay. Outside the lab the accuracy rate would be much lower.

To demonstrate this weakness, the researchers selected 1,000 men at random with at least five photographs, but in a ratio of gay to straight that more accurately reflects the real world; approximately seven in every 100.

When asked to select the 100 males most likely to be gay, only 47 of those chosen by the system actually were, meaning that the system ranked some straight men as more likely to be gay than men who actually are.

However, when asked to pick out the ten faces it was most confident about, nine of the chosen were in fact gay. If the goal is to pick a small number of people who are very likely to be gay out of a large group, the system appears able to do so.
The point is not that Dr Kosinski and Mr Wang have created software which can reliably determine gay from straight. That was not their goal. Rather, they have demonstrated that such software is possible.

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Africa was more beautiful than Europe in the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 18th centuries. Something changed just before slavery that caused many wars and slavery

Lyin x a big Sin

Who packed a jet for 105 days in Queen's land?

Uncle me!

Uncle Me!

Our ancestors were the one who gave the impression to others that we are second rate Homo sapiens.

They busied themselves with breeding like rats.

But there were a few bright spots like the NRI, Ife and Nok civilizations.


But I think its the forest that forestalled their growth....but then the Aztecs and the Mayas also live in the jungle and built pyramids whose geometry and trigonometry rhyme with the rotation of the Earth and so forth

Unless the Mayans had Alien sponsorship.
.lol

Still on gown...

The best delayed projevct

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Once upon a time, this very thread was uber famous...

It nurtured several greats.

mithras:
You guys are amazing!!! Please let's keep this thread alive. I just started learning blender from scratch a few days ago and I'd like to ask a quick question. Roughly how long does it take to complete say, a 1 minute animation? Pardon my naivety, I'm a total newbie willing to learn.

This depends on the geometry u have in ur project and the RAM of ur system and Graphic cards u have.

And if u got an instancing like plants , progressions or simulations.

And if you use a high density mesh or apply subdivs too much.
these are factors that affect render time. Even though Cycles have greatly improved render times, try the nightly builds of Corona.

Boss Baby is kinda good. Rewatched it

Working on Folds..

PH them Neva gets lite...

WIP .

Bad topology and a cloak wt ears...lol

Using this opportunity to announce that I will be switching to Corona. . it got a fine moistness shader plus the deep blacks of Cycle. I will only now use Cycles once there x hair

I am gonna sleep for a while.

sarrki:
Am a patriot

Patriot my sputum

3rd xter for the game series...

This one will get a cloak and sachel.
I am deferring texturing until i get all the characters (3 of em) straight out.

How I wish I can give this new guy a kaftan instead but its not in the brief...

many have now pluck off their eyes and rinsed in Jik....Now they see things clearly.

sarrki:
Then Nigerian Army will kill as many that are willing to die

Let's see how they will fare against 38 million people...
When it starts hope you enlist...

sarrki:
Chest beating

Nada will happen

its aphorisms like this that made the FG turn Nnamdi into a Mandela...

Re arrest him and He will be Christ...People can die for their Messiah

Rearrest him and those sitting on the fence will jump into the boat. I myself, was largely indifferent, marginally believed in Naija b4, was largely against GEJ, but the sooner the unwise FG clamped on Kanu.....I saw it as an affront on my identity and Biafra became the Alt.

So if kanu x rearrested expect his supporter base to increase and if possible become more militaristic..... u don't want that to happen?

Anyways a part of me still wished that IPOD should have a guerilla wing...sometimes
La sublime agitation boursière' makes u appear weak

The Igbo's up north will Neva listen....

Just check every slightest grievance the northern youths targets the Igbo's. there's an innate hatred but still d stupid igbo traders prefer the North.

Igbos up north should be smart and return back to SE. This Country is not for them.

What have I been doing?

Not in for almost 3 days. I am tired of complaining of Phcn. Feels like I am getting the complaint gene sef.

Well today, chaffing on the bright bone of chance, I got some power and did a rather quick detailing.

- so, I reformed d eyes, add in more folds
- aged him a bit
- got him a belt or two....I luv belts.
- duplicated him ( for my personal use) and added a prosthetic leg to that version.
- modeled a simple shoe too.

- added pores and Exported all my Normals.
- Prepared the cavity and disp maps for Unity too.
Phew....


Its almost an orgasmic outburst of sculpting under 2 and a half hrs. I guess one performs better under constraints. I hail NEPA for being the tick/lice up the rectum.

I can't afford a Generator.... its super weird.

donemmx:
Render for the month of August... #smiles

What's happening? Is she telekinetic?

Trying to fit a bionic something to his amputated knee...getting super slow .

this variation is gonna wear just a pant and weapons a LA carte.

Later on I will start detailing. Making things rough and creating them disp maps. Then I will texture. I wish I can get a Cintiq Tablet. everyone seem to have it except me. I am going to steal, I promise

The last few days have seen a temperamental Trump tweet the world closer to world war III. The president has been emotional, voluble and reckless – traits one would tolerate in a toddler but which are treacherous in a head of state.

A breakthrough in Pyongyang’s weapons programme prompted Trump to warn on Tuesday that he would unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” on North Korea if the regime continued to threaten the US. On Friday the US president tweeted that US military options were “locked and loaded” for use if Pyongyang “acted unwisely”.

So peeps get prepared.
We better stock up on food, guns and munition, once the nukes fly it will be chaos all over the world. Don't forget to have iodine tablets ready if you have kids.

have the most sex, read the most books now and try to prepare your skin for radiation becos if this Trunculent Trump and Petulant Kim fight drags to weapons exchange....prepare for the Nuclear Winter

I wonder what it would have being if GEJ s the one absent for 90 days...

get ready to have steady data once u get into it.
its better than Monaca anyway.

Mr seun need to employ serious coders not backyard wannabes...


something tells me that the entire script for Nl was purchased rather than built specifically by Seun. If not, why has it not changed for almost 8 yrs ? Twitter and Facebook constantly add new features but NL remains stuck in molasses.

I think, and I might suffer a ban, who cares, that NL was purchased off hotScript back in d day...

new variant with earing.

OKX:
nice.
why don't you do another variation where u beef up his lower body to match the musculature of his torso.
it will make for an interesting comparison.
possibly let his loincloth show the wear and tear of battle

alright sir. I will try to adjust the thighs. but I ve seen some guys o with big torsos & muscles and weeny mosquito legs too. hehehehe

This x d first time I ve ever modeled a xter under 35k vertices. huhuu

gradually, getting to terms with this sculpt. This is now a game xter posee for a game dev.

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the aliens deleted ur number?

he did the same thing to me when I mentioned that NL is a dinosaur waiting for an extinction event.

The ban followed when I also said that the site by Kanayonickel (infobreak.rf.fd) looks way more promising and has a code editing function.

Seun is indeed despotic and may not go further if he continues like this. No wonder NL is like it was way back 2006.....no improvement whatsoever. if u can't code Mr Seun , employ hot blood coders out there, don't go the way of Myspace. invention without innovation dies a natural deatg

I dare u Seun remove the this post.

I don't often vibe for stylized characters but this piece is charming.

thank God for Social media...
like the person above said , the statue no sexy at all, unizik own fine. it seems we lack eccentric and talented sculptors in this country.

by the way She always sees the rich and blindfolded against the poor.

9free:
Thanks. A little question ; which rendered do you believe in that is easier to used compared to Arnold.
Also I have downgraded to Maya2016.
I never get time for Arnold's wahala

check Nvidias iray or Keystone .

Marmoset is also good. has preset skin shaders and moistness shaders too. but its only for presentation. u can't use it to render out animations.

I would ve advised u to use cycles ( that's my default and only versatile renderer) but the learning curve x super high.



meanwhile, phcn is so petulant these days....for those who can, enjoy these graphite drawings.