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Scientists Create Computer That Can Comprehend "Beauty"

Scientists at Tel Aviv University claim to have created a computer program that can recognize human attractiveness. Here's what they did: they had thirty men and women look at 100 images of young, white women and judge the "beauty" of each image. Then, according to EurekAlert, "Based on human preferences, the machine 'learned' the relation between facial features and attractiveness scores and was then put to the test on a fresh set of faces." The computer rankings turned out to be very similar to the rankings people gave, and so the scientists are surmising that the computer is "interpreting" beauty on a human level. On researcher, Amit Kagian, says "I believe that some kind of universal correctness to beauty exists in nature, an aesthetic interpretation of the universal truth. But because each of us is trapped with our own human biases and personalized viewpoints, this may detract us from finding the ultimate formula to a complete understanding of beauty." More »

3:20 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Jessica
5,562 views, 89 comments

Latest by Bob_of_Mars: @N i s t h a: Nononno, you misunderstand: we don't need the computers to do it for us. We need to teach them to do it for themselves! Then, when they take over the world, they will more »