Scientists devise software that can interpret attractiveness

Believe it or not, this isn't the first time we've seen software created in order to determine whether a subject is drop-dead gorgeous, but scientists at Tel Aviv University have seemingly concocted a program of their own that can "interpret attractiveness in women." Before you ask, the researchers have yet to perfect the art of computing the beauty of males, but they're attributing said omission to the difficulty in "defining" attractiveness in dudes. Nevertheless, the software was purportedly able to reach nearly the same conclusion as humans about how lovely (or not) a hundred different ladies were, as it broke down features like face symmetry, smoothness of the skin and hair color. We're told the development could eventually be used in "plastic and reconstructive surgery and computer visualization programs," but c'mon, this is totally meant to automate the grueling Hot or Not process.

[Via Physorg]

[DeoWulf @ Apr 4th 2008 8:51PM]

I was just wondering if this existed today.

[NovaLand @ Apr 5th 2008 12:24AM]

I wake up next to one of that machines every morning and she tells me I look like crap

[Eric M. @ Apr 4th 2008 8:56PM]

Mmmh, perfect gift for your girl on Valentine's Day?

[Chris Macdonald @ Apr 4th 2008 9:15PM]

really depends doesn't it

[Austin @ Apr 4th 2008 8:59PM]

what happens when a computer is checking out your woman? do you beat them up? what does that consist of? plugging in a flash drive that releases an executable of smiley central?

[andres @ Apr 5th 2008 10:02AM]

actually it consists of a perpetual rickrolling being released on it

[Bobs @ Apr 4th 2008 9:00PM]

Does it devide by zero to kill itself if it sees rosie odonnell?

[Ben @ Apr 4th 2008 9:04PM]

you unplug it!!

[Flashpoint @ Apr 4th 2008 9:05PM]

We don't need science for this.
Nature invented it a long time ago.

Its called a PENIS.
positive = erection
negative = flaccid.

Attractiveness is subjective by the way so unless that machine likes big butts, thick thighs and C cups, Its a waste of money.

[Ignatius @ Apr 4th 2008 9:17PM]

I wonder what the R&D costs were for nature on this project.

[nh @ Apr 5th 2008 6:13AM]

Nature had the lowest bid and came in on budget, but the project overran by several million years.

[Albatross @ Apr 4th 2008 9:09PM]

That is leet. I wonder what my girlfriend would get...

[DarkLightConnection Unbanned @ Apr 5th 2008 12:51AM]

Wonder no more, your girlfriend got 0.

[Albatross @ Apr 4th 2008 9:11PM]

Flash, although I find your comment remarkably amusing, I'm pretty sure this is for gauging the attractiveness of someone's face, rather than their ability to allow motorboating.

[agarfield2004 @ Apr 4th 2008 9:13PM]

Evaluating...
PLASTIC SURGERY REQUIRED

[Chris Macdonald @ Apr 4th 2008 9:14PM]

it really depends doesn't it

[mahmud @ Apr 4th 2008 9:16PM]

Chuck Norris can divide by zero, but not even he can live after seeing Rosie.

[mahmud @ Apr 4th 2008 9:16PM]

that was @Bobs

[nintendo fanboy hater @ Apr 4th 2008 9:18PM]

humans have that software built-in

[andres @ Apr 4th 2008 9:32PM]

i think you mean "hardware"

[nh @ Apr 5th 2008 6:15AM]

it really depends doesn't it

[Ping Wang @ Apr 4th 2008 9:22PM]

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

[Jason @ Apr 4th 2008 9:24PM]

Finally, Science has found a way to replace the mongoloid bouncers at clubs.. I knew I was HOT!

[gfar @ Apr 4th 2008 9:28PM]

The software actually only looks for big boobs to determine if the girls are hot. There's also a manual mode as a backup, which emails me a picture of the girls blurred out face, but allows me to clearly see the boobs of the girl. I reply with Y or N.

[Blaktornado @ Apr 4th 2008 9:32PM]

Do we need really computers to tell us how good we look? Jesus Christ. A mirror, or heck, even another person can do that for us, and at a much cheaper price (because this presumably isn't something you just go up to and use for free. I bet it's one of those machines you have to put £1 into to be completely ripped off with some automated response that everyone gets.)

[Shinigami @ Apr 4th 2008 9:35PM]

It can say if the woman is pretty using men logic.
It can't say if a man is pretty using women logic. Why? Because women have no logic :P
But thats why we like'em, right, dudes?

[johnny465 @ Apr 4th 2008 9:47PM]

Either millions of years or some dirt.

[CSINBAD2 @ Apr 4th 2008 10:21PM]

Question: Did they use women of different ethnicities to form the basis for this ratings system? "Ideal" facial symmetry and whatnot may vary by ethnicity. Furthermore, what about bi- or multi-racial people, whose features may mimic multiple groups? It seems to me that a lot of attractive women may automatically be rated as less attractive simply because they don't look like the women they used to develop the system. Hell, now that I think of it, how did they determine that the 200 women they used were indeed gorgeous?

[-Tj- @ Apr 4th 2008 10:22PM]

I like that--they haven't yet devised a method of "defining" attractiveness in dudes. Maybe it's difficult because women say they like men that are "funny," or looking for "sensitive" guys. Perhaps computer programs are sophisticated enough to understand either of those yet. Then again, it is pretty hard to understand women at times.

Hmm... an afterthought: this only looks at faces...?

[phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 10:40PM]

i think it's a myth that they're illogical. they just have better brain wiring and are always a step ahead of us. i'll bet that the facial attractiveness varies less by gender than we'd imagine. there's a reason they call brad pitt "pretty boy" after all.

[-Tj- @ Apr 5th 2008 12:28AM]

Oooh... you've got a good point there. I'd better be on my guard. ;)

[klew @ Apr 4th 2008 10:23PM]

this is obviously targeted towards vampires

[phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 10:37PM]

FWIW, I remember from my social psych class that attractiveness has been shown to be cross-cultural, even to indigenous peoples with limited outside contact.

[Stem $ell @ Apr 4th 2008 10:42PM]

~~~~~~~~~

They built a girl judging computer
Named HAL 69 The Chickuter
Fuglys--"Pod bays are jammed"
Hot ones--"Monolith RAM"
(Guess Clarke's Babe-o-tron 'puter digs cuter)

~~~~~~~~~~~

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Apr 4th 2008 10:46PM]

Hmm... What if the gal was actually a dude?

err0r?

[El Taco @ Apr 4th 2008 11:20PM]

you would really think that engadget, of all sites, wouldn't have very many bugs, but nevertheless, cannot get the reply to work.

anyways,

@Eric M.

Depends if you can mod it so that it always says ur GF is pretty

[bob @ Apr 4th 2008 11:57PM]

Actually, I like them because if I went the other way, I'd be gay.

[Jakematic @ Apr 5th 2008 12:04AM]

Show me a man. I'll write the software.

[The Future @ Apr 5th 2008 12:17AM]

LOL:
Perhaps in the future, this is the way beauty pageants will be judged.

A Computer will act as one of the judges

Wonder how it could have judged a Miss Universe Pageant

http://www.omnisio.com/beauty/miss-universe-winners-being-announced--crowned

[ED @ Apr 5th 2008 12:18AM]

or firmware?

[ED @ Apr 5th 2008 12:20AM]

that WAS a reply to nintendo fanboy hater, darnit.

[Jmo @ Apr 5th 2008 12:22AM]

Well... I guess it's time for the mirror, mirror on the wall jokes. What about measurements? Is 36-24-36 taken into account or is it scaled down and is it only facial loveliness?

[White_Pheonix @ Apr 5th 2008 12:29AM]

"You have been scientifically proven to be unattractive. You may join the rest of your kind in the cage."

[unifinbroker @ Apr 5th 2008 12:50AM]

http://take2bank.info/my-dream.html

[Michael @ Apr 5th 2008 12:51AM]

The machine you enter your money into comes back with:

10 -- You Should Be Model
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5 -- Your husband thinks your hot
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1 -- You have great personality!
0 -- AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[~~Tito~~ @ Apr 5th 2008 2:00AM]

No u mean software. . . We all ready have the hard ware, the HDD is the brain so we need the App to tell. The dick is a meter, the farther out it goes the more a girl is hot, on a girl the more wet she is the more hot a guy is. Plain and simple, trannys don't have the soft ware built in.

[xol5000 @ Apr 5th 2008 2:03AM]

[In IRON MAN VOICE]: I do her, her, not her, ughhhh... get that nose fixed that we will talk, oh, yeah, definitely her...

[nDee @ Apr 5th 2008 2:39AM]

"I'm afraid you should go get some botox, else you're nowhere near
50/100"

[Sam @ Apr 5th 2008 3:13AM]

Their logic is not that hard to figure out actually...
A rough model would be ({bank account}x{occupation}) ^{perceived desirableness by other females}

[Blaine Oliver @ Apr 5th 2008 3:16AM]

This reply system is like a mac, someones going to have to hack it so we get full functionality.