How do it Know? While waiting in Best Buy today for for my lap top to be looked at for repairs, I wandered the isles drooling over giant flat screens, new phones, and state of the art cameras. Then I saw a little sign beside a Sony "Cyber Shot" digital camera.
NEVER MISS ANOTHER SMILE! it said.
Since the repair was taking longer than expected, I was becoming bored, so I started reading the fine print on Advertisement beside the sign. Supposedly this little camera has a setting that triggers the camera to go off when it detects a "smile."
Wait a minute! I did a double take. How do it know? How on earth can a machine detect a smile. Does it have a smile-o meter built into it? How does itknow the difference between a smile and a frown? What constitutes a smile? A big gleaming set of teeth and gums showing? Or will a sultry "just lips" botox type smile work? And what about those folks that walk around with permanent smiles etched onto their faces? Do those count as meaningful smiles to the machine?
Oh...........Apparently tests showed the camera doesn't recognize cartoon face smiles as smiles. ;O)
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