This very gap—being close to human but not quite—is what causes the sense of unease, and it’s referred to as the “uncanny valley.” But what is it about the almost-but-not-quite human ...

Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori described the danger of making computer generated voices too indistinguishable from humans as the “uncanny valley.” Mori cautioned inventors from building robots that ...

However, perceiving a mind in a machine that has risen out of the uncanny valley and looks nearly human makes it less creepy. "Exploring whether there is strong support for this speculation is an ...

You had human moderators sort of making decisions ... You're listening to Uncanny Valley. So we've been talking about the recent changes around content moderation and speech moderation at Meta.

NMWA's large-scale presentation, 'Uncanny,' is the first to approach the psychological concept in art through a feminist lens ...

Wikipedia says “The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers.” And yes, we have to admit that as incredible ...

Built for use, at least initially, in plants and warehouses, Apollo gets around the uncanny valley effect by not having a human-appearing face. Instead, the robot’s sloped ‘face’, round eyes ...

The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice ... but it doesn't take the place of an actual human being telling you what to do. And that creates probably a weird dissonance.

Osaka, Japan – Even if an android's appearance is so realistic that it could be mistaken for a human in a photograph, watching it move in person can feel a bit unsettling. It can smile ...

“The Uncanny Valley,” a phrase coined by Masahiro Mori, suggests that human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit eeriness and feelings of revulsion among ...