Is that selfie hot enough to load to Tinder?
Now, you won’t need to make such annoying decisions by yourself. A new selfie bot will rate that photo for you.
Developed by Andrej Karpathy, who’s getting his doctorate in computer science from Stanford, it’s part of a larger project he details on his blog about deep neural networks. He writes:
“Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things.
“But once in a while these powerful visual recognition models can also be warped for distraction, fun and amusement. In this fun experiment we’re going to do just that: We’ll take a powerful, 140-million-parameter state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network, feed it 2 million selfies from the internet, and train it to classify good selfies from bad ones. Just because it’s easy and because we can. And in the process we might learn how to take better selfies :)”
Intrigued? Take your selfie (it works on profile pics but honestly really likes the selfie), and tweet it to @deepselfie.
Like all bots, proceed with caution.The Selfie Bot’s bio says that it is about 60 percent accurate, but it is not programmed to spare feelings. However, it will throw you a bone here and there:
. @MattPaul25 looking at https://t.co/7hgTtZvbTe your selfie gets a score of 50.6%. It's okay.
— Selfie Bot (@deepselfie) October 25, 2015
. @ArturoS95 looking at https://t.co/ySVqepuhjK your selfie gets a score of 54.8%. Good one.
— Selfie Bot (@deepselfie) October 25, 2015
. @Loodazy looking at https://t.co/uan3hSgcV8 your selfie gets a score of 46.9%. It's a bit below average.
— Selfie Bot (@deepselfie) October 25, 2015
I've now looked at 175 of your selfies, almost 0.01% of the number of selfies I've seen during my training. Top score so far is ~70%.
— Selfie Bot (@deepselfie) October 26, 2015