Do you look like a young pup? Or is it time for a new set of make-up and some fresh dye in the coiffure?
Lo! You no longer have to gaze into the mirror and guess, or take the word of those who dare not offend. Run on over to Microsoft’s new tool and ask…
Monitor, Monitor, off the wall
Who’s the youngest of them all?
It not only will tell you how old it thinks you are, it’ll take a stab at your gender, too.
Now, to my mind it’s a brilliant invention: contemplating a face devoid of paint, the thing thinks I’m 17 years younger than I really am! That’s based on a photo snapped, on the fly, by PhotoBooth.
LOL! No wonder every medical factotum who demands that I regurgitate my birthdate (again!) coos “ohhhh, you don’t look that old!” phbhbtphbhbt!!
Fox News reporters, who apparently have little to do but manage to keep a sense of humor anyway, tested it on a bouquet of celebrities, several wax figures, and a pancake. Time, like all liberal media inclined to take itself more seriously, stodgily ran the portraits of ten presidents past it.
Result: the ages of US presidents are easier to parse than the ages of movie stars.
On the other hand…it’s a pretty sure guess that anyone residing and working in the White House is likely to age at the rate of two virtual years for every one solar year.
Try it out! You simply upload a photo to the CIA… a group of Russian hackers… the Koch brothers… Microsoft’s How-Old.net site and the program will render its opinion of your gender and your age. Over here, the techies responsible for these antics explain what they’re up to.
And at the Azure site, Microsoft techs express their awe at the number of people who have signed on to try it out, followed by a great deal of amusing user chatter.
Says one user:
Well. I’m 57. It guessed my most recent picture as 36. It also guessed the turtle tank I was standing next to as 4 and female. I’d say that’s typical for a Microsoft beta.
😆
I certainly don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings but if everyone who tries this Microsoft “trick” comes out about 15 years younger, maybe we’re seeing some skewed results here.
I don’t know if there is something being sold behind it all, but with those kind of results (and everyone bragging about them) it will certain drive some traffic to the site.
Mwa ha ha!!! That’s good: even more baroquely suspicious than I am. Excellent.
Actually, though, if you browse the comments on the Azure site, the results are hilariously all over the map. I thought the turtle tank took the cake, but lots of others had some very funny feedback. I’d guess about half the time, the program overestimates age. Sometimes it’s pretty close, but most of the time…needs work. 😀
I tried one of those sites last week. It was off by quite a bit but then again, no one can ever guess my age. I’ve gotten numbers from 18 to 48. ^__^;