Photo via Andrej Karpathy's blog
Photo via Andrej Karpathy’s blog

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:

Photo via Twitter/@deepselfie
Photo via Twitter/@deepselfie

“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:

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