AI能让我们更美吗？

“How much distress does your face cause you?” I stared at the question on my phone and the following options: “no distress at all,” “minor,” “moderate,” “extreme distress that affects your day to day.” This comes near the start of the intake form for Qoves, an artificial intelligence facial-analysis service. Answer its questionnaire, upload selfies from different angles (including the top of your head), pay $150 and let the AI do its magic. It maps 521 points on your face against dozens of aesthetic tests drawn from “years studying the literature in facial morphology, dermatology, and beauty science,” then suggests nonsurgical interventions to fix whatever needs fixing. Twenty-eight days later—after human experts checked the AI responses—Qoves Inc. …