{{Undisclosed paid|date=December 2017}} '''Beauty.AI''' is a mobile [[beauty pageant]] for humans and a contest for [[programmers]] developing algorithms for evaluating human appearance. The [[mobile app]] and [[website]] created by Youth Laboratories that uses [[artificial intelligence]] technology to evaluate people's external appearance through certain algorithms, such as symmetry, facial blemishes, wrinkles, estimated age and age appearance, and comparisons to actors and models.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Beauty.AI's 'robot beauty contest' is back – and this time it promises not to be racist|magazine=Wired UK |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/robot-beauty-contest-beauty-ai|accessdate=15 October 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Leclercq|first1=Cy|title=AI can make justice truly blind — but not just yet|url=https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/09/16/justice-can-finally-blind-not-yet/|website=The Next Web|accessdate=15 October 2017|date=16 September 2017}}</ref>
The Beauty.AI 2.0 contest caused great concern over important ethical issues with [[deep neural networks]] such as age, race and gender bias and lead to the creation of the Diversity.AI think tank dedicated to developing new methods for uncovering and managing bias in artificially intelligent systems.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artificial intelligence to uncover human biases|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/imi-ait_1071117.php|website=EurekAlert!|accessdate=15 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title='Facial-profiling' could be dangerously inaccurate and biased, experts warn|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/does-faception-work-2016-10|website=Business Insider|accessdate=15 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=These AI Startups Want to Fix Tech's Diversity Problem {{!}} Backchannel|url=https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-chatbot-will-hire-you-now/|magazine=WIRED|accessdate=15 October 2017}}</ref> Beauty.AI was also an attempt to find approaches on how machines can perceive [[human face]] through evaluating particular features, commonly associated with health and beauty.
==Concept== The Beauty.AI app was created by Youth Laboratories, a company based out of Russia and Hong Kong that focuses on facial skin analytics.<ref name="vice">{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-an-ai-judged-beauty-contest-picked-nearly-all-white-winners/ |title=Why An AI-Judged Beauty Contest Picked Nearly All White Winners |work=Motherboard |last=Pearson |first=Jordan |date=2016-09-05 |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref><ref name="disruptive"/> The bioinformation company Insilico Medicine assists in the Beauty.AI app by testing its deep learning techniques to the app.<ref name="disruptive"/> One goal of the app is to reduce the need for human and animal testing as well as improving people's overall health.<ref name="disruptive"/> Its first contest was started in December 2016, and the results were announced in August 2016.<ref name="globe">{{cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/beauty-and-the-bot-artificial-intelligence-is-the-key-to-personalizing-aesthetic-products/article30740401/ |title=Beauty and the bot: Why artificial intelligence is the key to personalizing aesthetic products |work=The Globe and Mail |last=Leung |first=Wency |date=2016-07-04 |accessdate=2017-01-17}}</ref> More than 60,000 people submitted entries into the contest.<ref name="livemint">{{cite web |url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Yi7La9mQjNxhpx5UeMBIFN/When-bots-become-bigots.html |title=When bots become bigots |work=Live Mint |last=Silgardo |first=Dustin |date=2016-10-08 |accessdate=2017-01-17}}</ref>
The [[mobile app]] uses [[artificial intelligence]] technology to inspect photographs for certain facial features in order to both determine a person's beauty through artificial means by multiple robots.<ref name="disruptive">{{cite web |url=http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com/Formulation-Science/Artificial-Intelligence-is-fuelling-disruptive-innovation-in-the-personal-care-industry |title=Artificial Intelligence is fuelling disruptive innovation in the personal care industry |work=Cosmetics Design |last=Utroske |first=Deanna |date=2016-01-04 |accessdate=January 16, 2017}}</ref>
Part of the Beauty.AI app's purpose is to collect visual and [[Anecdotal value|anecdotal data]] to improve its creator's Youth Laboratories skin analyst skills.<ref name="disruptive"/>
==Accusations of racism== There were a total of 44 individuals from different age groups and genders judged as the most attractive, with 37 [[White people|white entrants]], six [[Asian people|Asian entrants]], and one [[Dark-skinned people|dark-skinned entrant]].<ref name="vice"/> The app has received criticism from [[Social justice|social justice advocates]] and computer science professionals.
However, [[Alex Zhavoronkov]], PhD, chief science officer of Youth Laboratories and chief technology officer Konstantin Kiselev, both for Youth Laboratories, noted that a lack of data may have contributed to these results.<ref name="vice"/> Also, Kiselev added that another issue was that approximately 75% of entrants were white Europeans, whereas only 7% and 1% were from India and Africa, respectively.<ref name="vice"/> Kiselev stated that they would work on doing more and better outreach to these areas to improve in this area.<ref name="vice"/> Despite this, it was said by Dr. Zhavoronkov that the AI would discard photos of dark-skinned people if the lighting is too poor.<ref name="vice"/> Dr. Zhavoronkov vowed to weed out the issues for the next beauty pageant and to try to avoid a similar controversy in the future.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/artificial-intelligence-beauty-contest-doesnt-like-black-people |title=A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin |work=The Guardian |last=Levin |first=Sam |date=2016-09-08 |accessdate=2017-01-17}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|http://beauty.ai/|Official website of Beauty.ai}} *{{official website|http://ylabs.ai/|Youth Laboratories}}
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