Unless you’re watching reruns of Blossom, it seems like whenever you turn the TV on these days, the person you’re watching is better looking than you. We live in a time where we are fascinated with celebrities and their good looks. These days, we’re overwhelmed with reality shows, many of which are based primarily on looks: America’s Next Top Model, America’s Most Smartest Model, and all the briefcase holders in Deal or No Deal. With the abundance of attractive people on TV, viewers either want to imitate them or they become jealous of their popularity and success. Some idolize these TV personalities and impersonate them, through makeup, clothes, hair styles, etc., while others love when they falter, like BritBrit’s and LiLo’s falls from grace and the newly Mrs. Jay-Z falling on stage.
The push for beauty has even spread to little kids, with parents paying for manicures, and even paying for eyebrow and bikini waxes. And you thought those videos of Jon Benet Ramsey’s pageants were creepy.
There wasn’t any of this when I was younger. My dad cut my hair, I wore ten pound glasses, and I’d either wear jean shorts or my Vikings Starter jacket depending on the weather.
Until now, beauty has always been in the eye of the beholder. This may have changed in the last few weeks as a computer scientist from Tel Aviv University claims to have successfully taught a computer to determine how attractive a woman is, based on factors such as facial symmetry, hair color, and the Pythagoras’s “golden ratio.”
According to the team who created the software, it “allows the computer to complete a much more complex task of esthetic judgment, which humans cannot define exactly how they do it.” This is supposedly a big step forward in the development of artificial intelligence in that the computer is creating an emotional judgment.
In other technology learning news, TiVo has claimed that it can predict the losers of American Idol each week. More signs of artificial intelligence? No, it just monitors whenever a viewer replays a contestant’s performance. Obviously, if you watch it more than once, you must like it. This is the performance that broke GURU Engineer of the Year Jeremy Tucker’s rewind button on his TiVo:
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