How old are you anyway?
During the technically oriented second day of Microsoft’s Build conference, Joseph Sirosh, a vice president with the company, revealed a website designed to identify faces in photos and predict the person’s age and gender.
The aim was to show off Microsoft’s application programming tools and Web-hosting services.
In the hands of the Internet, the site went viral, chiefly for the ways it guessed wrong or made its user feel old.
People posted a host of oddball examples to Twitter, testing photos of zombies and cartoon characters.
I was 26 at the time a Seattle Times photographer snapped the photo I used. Microsoft’s site calculated I was 32. Not bad, but evidently a peer of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s. A photo of the presidential aspirant, taken during her tenure as secretary of state in her 60s, revealed a likely age of 36.
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, 47, comes out OK, appearing as 43 in the official photo of him on Microsoft’s website.
A goofy image of his 59-year-old predecessor, on the other hand, suggested Steve Ballmer is well past retirement age — 89.
— Matt Day
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New Microsoft website is one for the ages
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