Computerworld January 21, 2025
By feeding a single facial image into an AI model, researchers were able to discover personality traits allowing them to predict how succesdful someone would be in their career or even in higher education.
A new study by researchers from four universities claims artificial intelligence (AI) models can predict career and educational success from a single image of a person’s face.
The researchers from Ivy League schools and others used photos from LinkedIn and photo directories of several top US MBA programs to determine what is called the Big Five personality traits for 96,000 graduates. It then compared those personality traits to employment outcomes and education histories of the graduates to determine correlation between the personality and success.
The findings...