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A company that deals in artificial intelligence held an international beauty contest, and it was judged by their own AI creations. Turns out, the winners were predominantly light skinned, even though skin color was not a programmed factor:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ack-people

I know that research has been done, to determine what physical characteristics are typically percieved as attractive. I would assume that the results of those studies, or similar studies, would have been used in the creation of the AI software. Could it be, then, that darker skinned folks simply don't typically share those characteristics? That thought wasn't even brought up. I note, too, that one dark skinned contestant made it through, which really puts a damper on their argument, in my book.

Of course, this whole thing is silly, to begin with. I recall my dating days; on many occasions, I met women who I percieved to be attractive, until they began speaking. Then I lost interest. Sometimes they just had a voice that grated my ears, sometimes their words indicated a lack of brain function. Sometimes they just had a crappy attitude. On the other hand, I also recall meeting women who were less physically attractive, but a combination of attitude quality, particular body movement, and evidence of a properly functioning brain suddenly made more attractive.

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It probably was basing the beauty of contestants by "Phi", the golden ratio, which is well known to show beauty. People's faces can match this ratio making them perfectly symmetrical and thus more beautiful than most others, such was the case of Helen of Troy and Nefertiti . Psychologically people will be more attracted to those people. However, as much as they don't like it, it is not that common and is actually quite rare to see such symmetry in darker skinned races. It is a brutal truth I know, but you can't argue with the math.

But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

The opinion of beauty is a stimulated emotion specific to an individual's exposure and experiences. Robots can't experience emotion or develop an opinion, they can only process data input based on instructions a human codes into it. AI is not real and never will be. Truth is, natural intelligence is almost non-existent. The sheep don't think for themselves.

This article is a great example of people with too much time on their hands, looking for fault with everything. Reality is, beauty contests started off as a bunch of guys in Greece trying to find the best looking women to force to be their wife.... how the heck could attempting to develop AI to automate the process make it a non-prejudice process?

OMG! The computer software we wrote to be sexist is also racist! Wat are we gonna do???

Give me a break. LOL

"I recall my dating days; on many occasions, I met women who I percieved to be attractive, until they began speaking. Then I lost interest. Sometimes they just had a voice that grated my ears, sometimes their words indicated a lack of brain function. Sometimes they just had a crappy attitude. On the other hand, I also recall meeting women who were less physically attractive, but a combination of attitude quality, particular body movement, and evidence of a properly functioning brain suddenly made more attractive."

I've dated some beautiful women, some cute women, and some women with sparkling personality.

Someone... somewhere... is still... sicka their crap. Just sayin'.