This article was published on April 30, 2015

Microsoft built a fun tool that guesses your age


Microsoft built a fun tool that guesses your age

Today at Microsoft BUILD the company showed off a tiny tool that guesses your age based on a photo, built to demo the capabilities of Azure.

All you need to do is upload a photo and the tool will analyze your face to guess your age. On the first attempt for me, how-old.net overshot by far too much (I’m 24).

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The second time, it guessed 32. Not entirely accurate for me, but for others on Twitter they’re finding it to be bang on. I’ll go and buy some anti-wrinkle cream now, I guess.

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You can read a detailed post on how the company built the demo if you’re interested in the finer details.

Give the site a go for yourself and let us know in the comments if it was accurate for you or not!

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Read next: Everything Microsoft announced at Build 2015: Day 2

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