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Microsoft Age-Estimate Tool Unleashed Real-Time Virality
Researchers participating in Microsoft's Project Oxford have launched a range of machine-learning APIs in beta.
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Microsoft's Project Oxford has launched a range of machine-learning application programming interfaces (APIs) in beta, including How-Old.net, a website where users upload a photo of a face and the API has to determine how old the person is.
The Microsoft researchers emailed several hundred people asking them to test the site, estimating that at least 50 would take the time. "We monitored our real-time analytics dashboard to track usage and, within a few minutes, the number of people using the site vastly exceeded the number of people we had sent our email to," say two Microsoft engineers. Within a few hours, more than 35,000 users had visited the page from all over the world.
Age- and gender-recognition technologies are focal points for Microsoft Research, and the organization is trying to improve these technologies moving forward. "Any usage of the app, even if it results in inaccurate renderings, is good usage, because Microsoft gets more data to improve its systems," says VentureBeat's Jordan Novet.
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