Microsoft age-estimate tool unleashed real-time virality

Microsoft has launched machine-learning APIs in beta under the "Project Oxford" moniker. Its How-Old.net demo for this service went viral, reported Frederic Lardinois in TechCrunch on Thursday. How-Old uses some—but not all—of the new developer services that are part of "Project Oxford," he said. Meanwhile, Microsoft engineers Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian on Microsoft's Machine Learning blog told the related story about running a test and expecting, with luck, to get as many as 50 users. Unraveling before their eyes came the nature of the draw; the test drew over 35,000 users.

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