Website Answers Users 'How Old Do I Look' Question
By Edward Cardenas
SOUTHFIELD (CBS Detroit) - Television cameras are said to add 10 pounds to subjects, but do they add years?
Microsoft launched a webpage http://how-old.net to test its face detection application built with the company's Azure cloud computing platform.
The page allows users to upload a picture and have the app predict the age and gender of any faces recognized in that picture.
According to a blog post, the Microsoft developers were hoping at least 50 people would use the site when it launched Wednesday. In just a few hours, more than 35,000 people use the app.
A number of users took to Twitter to share their photos:
Had to give this a try... Guess I look pretty good for my age. #58andFly #HowOldRobot pic.twitter.com/5bFEVtwrjL
— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) May 1, 2015
We'll take 64! Have you done the #HowOld app yet? What ages are you getting? #JerryJerry pic.twitter.com/E3pURVgHXI
— The Jerry Springer Show (@SpringerTV) May 1, 2015
Or had fun with their favorite movie characters:
Wow. Pretty good! #howold @starwars https://t.co/0FH0cFW0JF pic.twitter.com/aOWo3F5QA5
— David Kwong (@davidkwong) May 1, 2015
"We wanted to create an experience that was intelligent and fun could capture the attention of people globally," Microsoft engineers Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian wrote in a blog post.