I went in search of the 'perfect face' -- and discovered the limits of AI

As the saying goes: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." But this egalitarian sentiment is easy to forget in our image-conscious age of photoshopped social media stars. Many feel pressure to look "perfect" and apps like Snapchat only help to filter out the "ugly" bits -- also known as reality. My own reflection was scrutinised this week in an uncomfortably public social experiment. A "biometric mirror" set up in Melbourne's CBD scanned my mug and used an algorithm to assess my level of "perfection".