I've trained my neural network to play Tinder
The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohs6sgmVNYI This video is a prof of concept. I always wanted to see if I could make my Neural Network play tinder for me. So I gather some pictures, created a fake tinder app (so I don't expose real people) and began the training. For this experiment I'm using scrcpy to control my cellphone and pyautogui alongside my neural network. The script is very simple: Get the image, run it trough a neural network, move the mouse to the output (yes or no) and click. There's a lot of hard coded things in my code, but as I said earlier,…
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The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohs6sgmVNYI This video is a prof of concept. I always wanted to see if I could make my Neural Network play tinder for me. So I gather some pictures, created a fake tinder app (so I don't expose real people) and began the training. For this experiment I'm using scrcpy to control my cellphone and pyautogui alongside my neural network. The script is very simple: Get the image, run it trough a neural network, move the mouse to the output (yes or no) and click. There's a lot of hard coded things in my code, but as I said earlier, it is just a prof of concept. The code is pretty much garbage, but here's it if anyone care to look: import json from PIL import Image, ImageChops import numpy as np from Dejavu import Dejavu #this is my neural network (soon on GitHub) import pyautogui import time data = json.loads( open('nn.json','r').read() ) nn = Dejavu() nn.load(data) choices = { 0: (900,565), 1: (1055,565) } pyautogui.moveTo(850, 210) pyautogui.click() # I know there's only 6 pictures on my fake tinder app for i in range(7): img = pyautogui.screenshot().convert('L') img = img.crop( (810,210, 1150, 500) ) img.thumbnail( (36,36) ) arr = np.array(img).reshape(-1) arr = np.pad(arr, (0,36*36-arr.shape[0]), mode='constant') result = nn.predict( arr.tolist() )[0].tolist() result = result.index( max(result) ) pyautogui.moveTo( choices[result] ) pyautogui.click() if i < 6: time.sleep(3)
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