Jeff Caplan’s Minute of News: How old is your face?

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SALT LAKE CITY — Scientists have come to the conclusion that you have two ages. Anybody who’s ever stood in front of a mirror stressing about crow’s feet knows this. 

You have a chronological age – when they sing Happy Birthday. And you have a biological age that basically measures the wear and tear on your body.

 

You might be 50 years old, but you look 40. That’s your biological age, measured through DNA testing which looks at the changes in the length of your telomeres.

But I don’t want to get into that because there’s now an easier way to measure how old you are. Just Google the words “Face Age.”

There’s a website run by Novos that uses AI to measure your “Face Age.”

All you have to do is smile for the camera on your computer or upload a photo and their servers will grind away for a minute and send you an email. But a word of warning – it does measure your eye age, your eye bags, facial wrinkles, the uniformity of your face, your pores and level of redness.

But the accuracy is questionable. I took three pictures, each with a different amount of light in the room. I’m 65 and the three different tests said I was 51, 58 and 60 — proving that AI isn’t all that smart and can’t make up its mind.

And it also proves that apparently, I’m not that old. But really, you can Google “Face Age” and take the test, or you can recognize you’re as old as you feel.

Jeff Caplan is the host of Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News on KSL NewsRadio. Follow him on Facebook and X. 

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