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Comment What is the purpose of this? (Score 1) 348

by yurivr on Monday March 31, 2008 @05:21PM (#22925086) Attached to: Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software

I understand that this is an interesting research topic but is there some type of use that can be derived from this in the real world. Why would an AI care how statistically attractive you are, and whu would we want an AI evaluating our appearance? After all, I thought the purpose of aesthetic beauty was to help you find a mate... so the robotic equation does not really... compute. (que fembot jokes) "Robot, Robot, in the server [wall]... who is the statistical outlier among them all?"

Submission + - Google pulls map images at Pentagon's request

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday March 06, 2008 @11:01PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Google has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday. Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and expected the company to cooperate in removing selected images from its Street View service. The Defense Department, which is still studying how many images are available, has also banned Google teams from taking video images on bases. But because many images were taken from public streets, the military may not have a legal right to request that videos be pulled.

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