Maybe its the orange cutoff on the side and the exposed chest area that many feminine clothing styles sport. If you put your hand over his chest, It looks like a masculine einstein lol.

As for the project itself, this is very, interesting.

1. neckline is too slender for a man.
2. hairstyle, hair density, and hairline are feminine.
3. eyes are way too youthful and shiny for an older male.
4. the outfit as noted by taylor.
5. the jawline and eyebrows look like cosmetic surgery or other modifications associated with female appearance upkeep (tweezed brows?)

i think everyone is missing the point here, it never learned anything, or at least i was not convinced it had learned anything new at all.

walt disney has been doing this “trick” for many years with their innovative robotics teams. some way or another information was ALREADY provided about facial expressions, mean the machine was just doing what it was told.

like always.

@sunjester, how is this different than traditional learning? I was “told” how to tie my shoes in a similar manner.

“it’s a me, mario! i’m a 60 years old!”

why someone would care that future vacuum cleaner will be able to make faces instead of doing it primary work better & faster

I would have to agree with some that this is not actually learning anything. This reminds me of the whole “put monkeys in a room for so many hundred years or so and the will write shakespear” (To inaccurately paraphrase).
This just proves how far we truly are to mimicking complex biological phenomena with an over-simplistic code counterpart. The year 2009!

@_matt
Idk, learning in itself is a very complex process:

The program seems to work only by iterations, that at any random interval could be accepted as a plausible facial expression, resulting in a reward, and thus that face is saved.

In real life, organisms ( the more intelligent ones, anyway ) don’t just learn by trial and error, and it is not all just guesswork; there are calculations and things like boolean / fuzzy logic are applied to the situation, and it is mostly done by the process, “a relatively minimal action- observation- calculation- repeat”.

What I am saying is, you and I both know we did not learn how to smile by brute-forcing facial expressions. We observed with audio, visual, and other sources of input.

It’s the painfully obvious wig with a feminine hairline.

who rewarded the robot for making the “stoned” look on the left of the picture montage at the top of the page?

“what reward do you give a robot?”

chips, obviously.

And this is relevant as a hack exactly how? This has been blogged by a half dozen sites already – hackaday doesn’t need this.

it is technically an ai hack. by combining random actions with “rewards” (positive feedback, basically binary response…either this combination of actions is good or not) learning can be faked.

“Hello, I am uncomfortably androgynous Mark Twain. Sometimes a feel more like a man, and sometimes more like a woman. Will you help me explore my sexuality?”, the robot said with a provocative expression.

Man, I’m glad you mentioned that. The first thing I thought was, “Why does that robot look like a woman dressed as Einstein?”

I thought that was Joan Rivers.