Artificial intelligence can make personality judgments based on photographs

Russian researchers from HSE University and Open University for the Humanities and Economics have demonstrated that artificial intelligence is able to infer people's personality from'selfie' photographs better than human raters do. Conscientiousness emerged to be more easily recognizable than the other four traits. Personality predictions based on female faces appeared to be more reliable than those for male faces. The technology can be used to find the'best matches' in customer service, dating or online tutoring. The article, "Assessing the Big Five personality traits using real-life static facial images," will be published on May 22 in Scientific Reports.