From The Verge:
Amazon’s latest artificial intelligence tool is a piece of image recognition software that can learn to guess a human’s age. The feature is powered by Amazon’s Rekognition platform, which is a developer toolkit that exists as part of the company’s AWS cloud computing service. So long as you’re willing to go through the process of signing up for a basic AWS account — that entails putting in credit card info but Amazon won’t charge you — you can try the age-guessing software for yourself.
In what sounds like a smart move on Amazon’s end, the tool gives a wide range instead of trying to pinpoint a specific number, along with the likelihood that the subject of the image is smiling or wearing glasses.
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Amazon’s Jeff Barr sees the age range feature as a way to “power public safety applications, collect demographics, or to assemble a set of photos that span a desired time frame,” he writes in a blog post.
Link to the rest at The Verge and thanks to Jan for the tip.