You need no technical experience whatsoever to analyze and evaluate this Microsoft Face API software, which is an artificial intelligence service that analyzes faces in images. The objective of this software is to determine if two photos containing faces refer to the same person.

• To begin, take two selfies, each in different locations or with different expressions; alternatively, take a selfie of yourself and a photo of someone else, or two photos that are not of yourself.
• Next, go to Microsoft's facial recognition page. (Links to an external site.)Scroll down until you find an image that looks something like the image below.

• Submit your own two images to Microsoft's facial recognition page. (Links to an external site.) Note: if you're on a Mac, uploading your images may be problematic. If this is the case, use one of the sample couplet photos provided by Microsoft on the same page as the app.
• On a Word 2019 document with your two images at the top. Below the photos, provide a numbered list to answer following:
  1. Type the application's verification result on the Word document. This indicates how confident the application is regarding the accuracy of its own evaluation. Type your answer like this: "Confidence is X" (where X is a numeral. Do not use quotation marks; do not type extra words or characters).
  2. On the same Word document, type your evaluation of the application with one of these phrases
     • "my conclusion regarding the application's confidence in itself is that it is extremely confident that the persons in the two photos are the same person";
     • "my conclusion regarding the application's confidence in itself is that the application is very confident that the persons in the two photos are the same";
     • "my conclusion regarding the application's confidence in itself is that the application is somewhat confident that the person in the two photos are the same";
     • "my conclusion regarding the application's confidence in itself is that the application is not very confident that the persons in the two photos are the same";
     • "my conclusion regarding the application's confidence in itself is that the application is way off."

3. "I came to my conclusion_______________. " Fill in the blank. How did you come to your conclusion?

4. Using just a numeral (no words or extra characters), type the verification result of a perfect match of the faces (for example, if the same two photos were uploaded).

5. What is the the relationship of the two faces pictured? (If you are using random samples, write "I don't know."