{"id":13513,"date":"2016-01-05T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:44:51","slug":"a-beauty-contest-with-robot-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/a-beauty-contest-with-robot-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beauty Contest With Robot Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/010516_1341_ABeautyCont1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zoltan Istvan wrote about an initiative to have a beauty contest judged by robots:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People would take selfies of themselves for the contest and upload the photos for AI to evaluate beauty.<\/li>\n<li>Make-up, beards, and hats aren&#8217;t allowed in the selfies.<\/li>\n<li>The contest is expected to be held once every six months.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the project is more than just skin deep \u2013 through it the contest backers are hoping to teach robots how humans evaluate beauty.<\/li>\n<li>This may lead to AI driven advances that help people look younger.<\/li>\n<li>If robots can be taught abstract concepts such as beauty it may also be possible to teach them to appreciate art, music, and other things that humanity is fond of.<\/li>\n<li>And if robots start to evaluate each other&#8217;s appearance then this could be the beginning of robot attraction and someday, maybe even love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the companies and researchers backing the competition, how it is open-sourced, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/01\/01\/the-first-international-beauty-contest-judged-by-robots\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/01\/01\/the-first-international-beauty-contest-judged-by-robots\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/01\/the-first-beauty-contest-judged-by-a-robot.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoltan Istvan wrote about an initiative to have a beauty contest judged by robots: People would take selfies of themselves for the contest and upload the photos for AI to evaluate beauty. Make-up, beards, and hats aren&#8217;t allowed in the selfies. The contest is expected to be held once every six months. The aim of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/010516_1341_ABeautyCont1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13516,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/13516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}