At some time a lot of you have probably thought about putting Caravinagre and San Fermín through the Microsoft application that attempts to forecast the age from the image… well, we have done so and the #howoldrobot tells us that Caravinagre is 66 years old, San Fermín is 36 and the ‘Europe’ Giant is 33. The average age of the Giants and their retinue is 35, with widely different predictions being made.
In the case of Caravinagre, the prediction made by the appliance is a bit scary because it is quite close to the truth. This particular “kiliki” is in fact 74 years old. Caravinagre was made in the Porta-Coeli workshops in Valencia in 1941. However, in the case of San Fermín and some of the giants, the forecasts are not so realistic; indeed, the gentle features of the saint and some of the giants made by Tadeo Amorena are a long way older than the thirties. Perhaps the appliance fails here because of the smooth features of these sculptures…
How-old.net has become very popular and well-known in spite of the fact that everything began just as a stratagem in order to carry out a demonstration by two Microsoft engineers at a Congress. This appliance, now so popular, came into being as a result of a stratagem used to demonstrate the capacity of the Azure system from Microsoft that allows APIS to be developed to show machines how to do different tasks (‘machine learning’). These FACE APIs from Microsoft, which integrates this system, can gather identities, age, sex, etc… and after trying out this stratagem we have to admit that there is no doubt about its potential for the future.
