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A continuation of today's vocabulary lesson, brought to you by AI. I love how ideas and themes converge in life - just a few weeks ago, I finished reading the fascinating and entertaining book on the Turing test and artificial intelligence, The Most Human Human. And here I am today, clicking frenetically on this insightful analysis on the thin edge of cute and creepy in robotics (Siri, we're looking at you).
the uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.
uncanny valley, wikipedia via berglondon