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Another day, another Microsoft facial recognition tool that funnels the internet’s amusement straight into Bing’s search algorithm.
Just kidding! Microsoft said it doesn’t keep your photos, but they’re likely being used to help improve the AI. Today’s tool, Project Oxford, lets you upload a picture and the bot will guess your emotions. As you can imagine, the Web had a field day with it.
Let’s use the same model we did last time with Microsoft’s How Old bot. Dawson didn’t fare too well last time with an age guesstimation of 71, at least Microsoft knows he’s grieving pretty hard.
So is Kim Kardashian, with a peculiar 12 percent tint of potential happiness.
It’s also good for solving age-old mysteries.
How’s Riley really feeling? Okay, I guess.
Obviously, the tool still needs some tweaks to start factoring body position and food being consumed into consideration.
Microsoft says Sad Keanu is only 2% sad https://t.co/Mimtj2wuis Emotion Recognition https://t.co/RfNOSNxCbt @Azure pic.twitter.com/BbbtgT63ib
— Jeff Widmer (@jeffwids) November 11, 2015
Only 7 percent angry, eh?
MS facial recognition showing emotion. Very awesome and pretty spot on… https://t.co/KgQCHXWpR5 pic.twitter.com/Aoi9I9Z34v — Joshua Combs (@JoshuaDCombs) November 11, 2015
Still, can’t say we’re not impressed.
Microsoft’s #ProjectOxford seems legit https://t.co/u3ym3JZHRh pic.twitter.com/f9hNf10g4s
— Jorge (@jpalanca) November 11, 2015
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