Microsoft has launched a new website known as How Old.net that utilizes facial recognition software to determine your age based on a image.It is a website where users can upload a photo and API has to estimate how old is and also guess about gender.
Microsoft's demo app was released during build conference in San Francisco, a few days ago.Microsoft's Machine Learning APIs is a really fun tool which can detect faces in a picture and then guess the age of that person and their gender.
Two Microsoft engineers Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian said, "we sent e-mail to a group of several hundred people asking them to try the app demo for a moment and give us feedback.Estimating that at least 50 people would want to it a shot."We monitored our real time analytics dashboard to track usage and, within a few minutes, the number of people using the site vastly exceeded the number of people we had sent our email to.Within a few hours, more than 35,000 users had visited the web page from all over the world."
Age and gender recognition features are focal points for Microsoft and we want to improve this technology, a senior program manager at Microsoft Ryan Galgon said."Any usage of the app, even if it results in inaccurate renderings, is good usage, because Microsoft gets more data to improve its systems," VentureBeat's Jordan Novet said.
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