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No secrets from God: AI's superhuman cognition expands into new areas - C C - Sep 12, 2017
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728614-machines-read-faces-are-coming-advances-ai-are-used-spot-signs
EXCERPT: Modern artificial intelligence is much feted. But its talents boil down to a superhuman ability to spot patterns in large volumes of data. Facebook has used this ability to produce maps of poor regions in unprecedented detail, with an AI system that has learned what human settlements look like from satellite pictures. Medical researchers have trained AI in smartphones to detect cancerous lesions; a Google system can make precise guesses about the year a photograph was taken, simply because it has seen more photos than a human could ever inspect, and has spotted patterns that no human could.
AI’s power to pick out patterns is now turning to more intimate matters. Research at Stanford University by Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang has shown that machine vision can infer sexual orientation by analysing people’s faces. The researchers suggest the software does this by picking up on subtle differences in facial structure. With the right data sets, Dr Kosinski says, similar AI systems might be trained to spot other intimate traits, such as IQ or political views. Just because humans are unable to see the signs in faces does not mean that machines cannot do so....
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RE: No secrets from God: AI's superhuman cognition expands into new areas - Magical Realist - Sep 12, 2017
I never knew there were physical traces of my gay orientation displayed on my face. But I have always trusted the knack of gay men to tell called gaydar. I don't really have it myself. But lots of gay men have honed in on me for some reason. Perhaps some weakness in the chin/jawline. Who knows?