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by mrhyperpenguin 4062 days ago
Note that there's a difference between predicting your age and estimating how old somebody looks (i.e. you could look older for your age).
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The results on every photo I tried were ludicrously wrong. The closest it got on photos of me was about five years older than me, but it ran anywhere up to 20 years too old.

The same thing on photos of others I tried: a 22-year old man was estimated to be 49, a fifty-year-old woman--who is generally considered to look young for her age--to be 69. Those are ages that no one would ever guess based on looks.

So I'd say the algorithm needs a little more work.