Aesthetics algorithm spots beauty that humans overlook

Beautiful images are not always popular ones, which is where the CrowdBeauty algorithm can help, computer scientists say. One of the depressing truths about social media is that the popularity of an image is not necessarily an indication of its quality. It's easy to find hugely popular content of dubious quality. But it's much harder to find unpopular content of high quality. That's largely because popularity is governed by a power law: A small proportion of content receives a large proportion o...