Binary "Hot or Not": Scientists have Developed a Computer that can Appreciate Female Beauty
Tel Aviv computer scientists have developed a computer that can appreciate female beauty. They don't seem to be aware of the danger of this work, since giving an internet-enabled computer the ability to enjoy the female form will cripple it far worse than any virus.
The computer was trained with input data from human subjects, who rated the attractiveness of a collection of Caucasian women from one to seven. They obviously felt that while a binary "hot or not" system would be apropos for the computer mind, it lacked sophistication. The computer analyzed the same images according to its own priorities (including all the usual computerizable priorities: symmetry, feature ratio, resemblance to Sarah Connor etc) and cross-referenced these with the fleshy human opinions. Based on this, the computer can now predict how attractive humans will find new images.
The heart of the system is the conversion of input images into a collection of mathematical values. This is performed by the "facial feature extractor", which is honestly the most ominous sounding thing since the Jaws sound crew got hold of a cello. The computer's final preferences match a number of things already known about human psychology. The digital deliberator prefers women with smooth skin smooth skin (a fact the advertising industry has mercilessly applied in the form of soft focus). Faces that have been "averaged" over a number of attractive subjects are preferable to any individual, a revealing aspect of the human instinct for conformity.
The makers refer to this capture of wider human psychology in a program as a success of "psychophysics", and if they see any problem in programming an immortal psychophysical computer system to be attracted to our human women, they sure aren't showing it.
The work is being touted in advance in human-like machine intelligence, but that isn't quite the case. After all, if the computer truly reacted to female beauty like a man did, surely it would immediately lose the ability to perform sophisticated mathematical analysis.
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Yeah...right.....I'm going to respond to this...based on your sexy come on picture. Get a life.
Posted by: Scott | April 08, 2008 at 07:21 PM
Hmm.... Just what would this be in aid of ? A way for a lonely computer to find a human companion, a way to recognize Sarah Connor, or a clever way to waste grant money ?
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Hey, a real computer scientist would see how wrong this is. The computer will react to the attractive program, but if you don't want it to slow down performace (like humans do when they are attracted) simply change the program.
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