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.

Posted by Luke McKinney.

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Comments

[Scott]

Yeah...right.....I'm going to respond to this...based on your sexy come on picture. Get a life.

[knoxvilledaniel]

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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This is what happens when some guy gets bored.

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[Joseph]

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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Nice idea, but not sure how it'd work....?

[Brad]

Since the last comment was made in june 2k9 I probably wont get much in return. However for the sake of the project, I see it as taking the database of the Governments facial recognition software and putting into an AI form, now give it a set of basic commands of a human, tell it to search for a set of tones, eyes with color, shape of a body and now you either got a replacement for a man, granted without reproduction, or you have a killer, or you have a new form of a pimp that can handle making money , finding females, has no emotion and collects money for someone that isn't having to work the streets. Withour the real pimp needing to be in sight or same country for that matter.

This technology can lead to a lot of levels outside the typical thinking box. I mentioned the tops as some what of a joke, but being a programmer myself and typically not thinking about the average joe's thinking, and not being scare to voice an option, honestly this could be a new form of rescue AI, or for forensics.

Example would be it looks for beauty, but change it to look for anything within a guide lines of Skin tone, shape, hair design, give the robot a set of variables,but give it the basics of body tone, granted some people get fat, or skinny, but your eyes and bones stay the same, when you set a robot in to do hard work in dark tunnels if someone maybe is barried or living there, the robot could grab that person or at least identify them and send that up top for the controller can tell that robot to grab or let go, ALmost like a remote desktop control panel with a mind to run itself if needed.

There is plenty more options this could have. But I hope it helps those that limit their minds to think outside the box a little.

Thanks for the post...

Brad
Limitless boundries of the ever growing imagination.